spook
    n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep,
         weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook]
    2: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
       looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from
       his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith,
       specter, spectre]
    v 1: frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action;
         "The noise spooked the horse"

Spook \Spook\ (sp[=oo]k), n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw.
   sp["o]ke, Dan. sp["o]gelse a specter, sp["o]ge to play,
   sport, joke, sp["o]g a play, joke.]
   1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written
      also spuke.] --Ld. Lytton.
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   2. (Zool.) The chimaera.
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