spook
A ghost or phantomA ghost or phantom.
» Horses are easily spooked.
Pferde scheuen leicht.
Лошадей легко вспугнуть.
Значение
значений: 7(разговорное)A ghost or phantom.
The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.
Geist, Phantom, Gespenst
при́зракprízrak
(разговорное)A scare or fright.
The big spider gave me a spook.
(сленг)An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
Geheimagent, Spion
шпио́нšpión
(устаревшее, ethnic, оскорбительное, сленг, slur)A black person.
ни́ггерnígger
A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
(США, сленг)A psychiatrist.
(сленг)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.
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Примеры
предложений: 61Horses are easily spooked.
Лошадей легко вспугнуть.
dePferde scheuen leicht.
I didn't mean to spook you.
Tom's horse got spooked and bolted before he could mount it.
Something must've spooked Tom.
Tom looked spooked.
Переводы
языков: 4По значениям 3
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Происхождение
Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate witBorrowed 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”).
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