Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Usage examples of spook.

Als een bliksemschicht flitste deze gedachte door haar brein, slechts gedurende een ondeelbaar oogenblik, en zij schrikte er voor als voor een spook.

Now the nations that those spook institutions served no longer exist, their very land masses being part of the orbiting noospheric construction project that will ultimately turn the entire solar system into a gigantic Matrioshka brain.

Spook took a sudden series of zigzags down the road, not all-out, now, but scarily fast for so many turns.

There was nothing behind him but normal traffic, and yet Schey was spooked.

The riders, spooked and uncertain, leave her for the slinking carrion-eaters.

Rain was the culprit that had initially spooked Shimmer and Slip by picking up a far sending like that.

Which brought his head around and his chin into collision with its spooked head-toss as it backed off.

It kept Jennie spooked, though Jennie was doing amazingly well at holding herself calm and not talking.

Before we had a chance to find out, I spooked on ahead and checked the room where I had last found myself.

Cloud, venturing close to him again, spooked off with an angry whuff of breath, the wildness Cloud had before storms, deserting him as the other nighthorses, gathering here and there among the riders, shifted and snorted in the gathering dark.

A group of them spooked off the same way Cloud had, a muted thunder down the street toward the farther reaches of the camp.

They were here to talk about the rogue that had spooked a convoy off the road on Rogers Peak, and here were Harper and his friends talking as if Stuart was the real threat, right here in Shamesey.

Or it was the spooked riders, the ones that had come in with the news.

It might be a spooked, unwise decision, with the sleet having turned to honest snow by the time they passed the shelter on the trail.

Cloud spooked another couple of feet and stopped, shedding snow with a whip of his tail.