spoopy
adj/ˈspuːpi/UK/ˈspupi/US
Etymology
A misspelling of spooky, originating from a 2009 photograph of a Halloween sign with the misspelled word spoopy originally uploaded to the website Flickr. It was reposted on Tumblr in 2011, upon which the word become an Internet meme and developed its current senses.
Definitions
Synonym of spooky.
- Hey Alan, did you know when Romance wears those black jackets he looks spoopier?
- To get into the spoopy spirit, you will exclusively listen to the "Spooky Scary Skeletons" trap remix on repeat from now until Halloween.
- It's spoopy season – a time for pumpkin carving, trick or treating and "Hocus Pocus" reruns.
Involving horror concepts and tropes in comical, cute, or nonthreatening ways.
- [Y]ou might like Crimson Peak. Although the story is lacking, it's the spoopiest—and most interesting thing—at the Cineplex.
- A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. […] And now things just got boopier and spoopier with NEW Ghost Cats that float between spaces.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for spoopy. 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