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Spooky   /spˈuki/   Listen
Spooky

adjective
1.
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses).  Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish.






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"Spooky" Quotes from Famous Books



... help for it, though; he had to have a story of every queer-looking hole, rock, tree, or mud-puddle we saw. There was one spooky-looking tree, dead on one side. 'Now,' thinks I, 'I shall lay you out ...
— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips

... could see it was deep and all shaded by the trees. Oh, jiminy, it was fine. And you could hear it ripple too, just like the water of Black Lake up near Temple Camp. If I was a grown-up author I could write some dandy stuff about it, because it was all dark and spooky as you might say, and you could see the trees reflected in it and casting their something or other—you know ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh



Words linked to "Spooky" :   excitable, flighty, nervous



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