Definition of Spooking

1. Verb. (present participle of spook) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spooking

1. spook [v] - See also: spook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spooking

spookdom
spooked
spookeries
spookery
spookfest
spookfests
spookfish
spookfishes
spookhouse
spookhouses
spookier
spookiest
spookily
spookiness
spookinesses
spooking (current term)
spookish
spookmaster
spookmasters
spooks
spookshow
spookshows
spookspeak
spooktacular
spooky
spooky PAC
spooky PACs
spooky action at a distance
spool
spool cannon

Literary usage of Spooking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"But in that case it follows that people are made God-fearing, and that the Devil by this practice of spooking shows himself a friend rather than an enemy of ..."

2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"'But in that case it follows that people are made God-fearing, and that the Devil by this practice of spooking shows himself a friend rather than an enemy ..."

3. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... and spooking around it and prying into it was not to pass the time—it had a strictly business end in view. ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 "thers, in spooking, from their smooth address, Might make their weakness or their crimes seem The flow'ry art was never made for nv1, [lest, ..."

5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"Therefore, as you see, the court's persistent fashion of coming back to that subject every little while and spooking around it and prying into it was not to ..."

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