Definitions
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
Word origin
Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).
Used in a sentence
“The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.”
“"I'll say what I think, no more and no less, and I won't be scared by you or your spooks into altering my opinions."”
“The big spider gave me a spook.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Scare suddenly”5 letters
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