spook

• n. 幽霊；幻影
• vt.幽霊のように出没する。
• vi. おびえさせる

オランダ語のspook、ghost、spectreから。起源は不明だが、specter、ghost、spectreから転用された可能性がある。スパイ（spy）、エージェント（agent）、文字通り二重スパイ（mole）に由来する。

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、彼はよく幽霊のように家からこっそり出てくる。

2.I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe.

私はエドガー?アレン?ポーに付きまとう幽霊ではありません。

3.Refrigerators.I killed that poor spook over hot refrigerators？

冷蔵庫はお母さんの冷蔵庫のために私にあの鬼を殺すように強要した？

4.Don 't let the repoter spook you，and you have to behave urbanely.

記者に付きまとわせないで、あなたは上品に振舞わなければなりません。

5.Something furry grazed Spook 's calf as It 'shot between his legs.

毛むくじゃらのものが、彼の足の間を駆け抜けたように、スカンクのふくらはぎをこすった。