spook
spoohk
- n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- n a mental representation of some haunting experience
- v frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
The noise spooked the horse
- McDonnell specializes in studying wild horses and has occasionally seen the roughsometimes lethaltreatment feral dogs receive when they're foolish enough to spook the group.
- As one spook puts it: "You can't tell what's going on in Saddam Hussein's head from satellite surveillance.
- A spook pursued Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire through the corridors of Chicago's refined Blackstone Hotel one day last week.