spook

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (informal) A ghost or phantom.
2. A hobgoblin.
3. (informal) A scare or fright.
4. (slang) An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
5. (dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A black person.
6. A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
7. (US, slang) A psychiatrist.
8. (slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.

Verb

1. (transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
2. (intransitive) To become frightened (by something startling).
3. (transitive) To haunt.

Conceptos

fantasma

👻

espectro

aterrorizar

asustar

😨

aparición

espantar

😨

sobresaltar

destape

wraith

bicho raro

rarito

tipo raro

espía

sombra

divulgación

estrafalario

revelacion

revelación

Sinónimos

ghost

👻

spectre

specter

scare

😨

wraith

frighten

haunt

spirit

apparition

hobgoblin

bogey

genie

🧞

phantom

goblin

startle

weirdie

weirdo

spy

weirdy

shade

phantasm

poltergeist

terrify

creep

terrorize

ogress

scare off

disembodied soul

fantasm

phantasma

supernatural visitant

affright

odd fellow

bogy

bully

dash

💨

daunt

demon

detective

🕵️

discovery

eccentric

eye-opener

freak

gnome

haunter

intimidate

operative

pall

party dress

pixy

Traducciones

spettro

fantasma

👻

spook

Gespenst

👻

apparizione

fantôme

👻

spectre

👻

korkutmak

spion

tayf

herumgeistern

geest

👻

Spuk

verspieder

tekinsiz

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/spuːk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con Middle Low German: spôk

Cognado con alto alemán medio: gespük

Cognado con alemán: Spuk

Cognado con danés: spøge

Cognado con sueco: spöke

In summary

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”).