spook

英 [spu?k] 美

TEM8低頻詞

復(fù)數(shù):?spooks;第三人稱單數(shù):?spooks;過去式:?spooked;過去分詞:?spooked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?spooking;

spook 鬼怪，幽靈，間諜，特工

來自荷蘭語 spook,鬼怪，幽靈，詞源不詳，可能改寫自 specter,鬼怪，幽靈。引申詞義間諜，特工，字面意思即內(nèi)鬼。

spook (n.): 1801, "spectre, apparition, ghost," from Dutch spook, from Middle Dutch spooc "spook, ghost," from a common Germanic source (German Spuk "ghost, apparition," Middle Low German spok "spook," Swedish spok "scarecrow," Norwegian spjok "ghost, specter," Danish sp?g "joke"), of unknown origin. According to Klein's sources, possible outside connections include Lettish spigana "dragon, witch," spiganis "will o' the wisp," Lithuanian spingu, spingeti "to shine," Old Prussian spanksti "spark."

Meaning "undercover agent" is attested from 1942. The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe.
spook (v.): 1867, "to walk or act like a ghost," from spook (n.). Meaning "to unnerve" is from 1935. Related: Spooked; spooking.

1. At night, he would creep out of the house like a spook.: 夜間, 他常常像幽靈一般地從家里偷偷地出來.

2. I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe.: 我不是纏磨著埃德加·愛倫·坡的那種幽靈.

3. Refrigerators . I killed that poor spook over hot refrigerators?: 冰箱為了他媽的冰箱逼我殺了那鬼?

4. Don't let the repoter spook you, and you have to behave urbanely.: 別讓記者纏住你, 而你還得舉止文雅.

5. Something furry grazed Spook's calf as It'shot between his legs.: 一個(gè)毛茸茸的東西擦過斯布克的小腿,象是從他兩腿之間跑過去了.