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spookist

noun

Etymology

From spook + -ist.

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

Definitions

  1. A spiritualist or medium.

    • The foolish, credulous dupes never for a moment consider the utter incongruousness of the association of their beloved dead or missing with these professional 'spookists.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spookist. 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