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spookish

adj

Etymology

From spook + -ish.

  1. derived from spooc — “spook, ghost”
  2. borrowed from spook — “ghost”
  3. suffixed as spookish — “spook + ish”

Definitions

  1. Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural

    Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.

    • I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish.

  2. Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved.

    • In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.
    • As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.

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Derived

spookishly

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spookish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA