spook

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

spettro

fantasma

👻

apparizione

spia

spirito

disvelamento

divulgazione

tipo allucinante

ombra

rivelazione

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

espectro

spook

fantasma

👻

Gespenst

👻

fantôme

👻

spectre

👻

asustar

😨

herumgeistern

aparición

geest

👻

spion

verspieder

Spuk

aterrorizar

espantar

😨

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/spuːk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine Middle Low German: spôk

Affine tedesco medio alto: gespük

Affine tedesco: Spuk

Affine danese: spøge

Affine svedese: 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”).