spookish
Adjective
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Adjective
spookish
- (informal) Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky.
- 1914, Edward Stratemeyer, Dave Porter in the Gold Fields, ch. 22:
- I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish.
- 1930, H. L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods (2006 edition), ISBN 9780801885365, pp. 174-5 ↗:
- Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities.
- 1914, Edward Stratemeyer, Dave Porter in the Gold Fields, ch. 22:
- (informal, often of a horse or other animal) Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved.
- 1908, Sylvester Barbour, Reminiscences (2009 edition), ISBN 9781115996655, p. 26 ↗:
- In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.
- 2010, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20101123163007/http://isoldmyhorse.com/horse/for_sale/521 Sarah $3000]", isoldmyhorse.com (retrieved 13 July 2010):
- As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them.
- 1908, Sylvester Barbour, Reminiscences (2009 edition), ISBN 9781115996655, p. 26 ↗:
- (easily startled or frightened) skittish
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