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spooky
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Spooky is the second album of English alternative rock band Lush , produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins . The album followed the band's debut mini album , Scar , several extended play releases, and the compilation album Gala . Spooky reached the UK ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural 2 unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, "frightening;" 1926, "easily frightened," from spook (n. or v.) + -y (2). Related: Spookily ; spookiness .
Usage examples of spooky.
A movie director would have made up such a monster as this humpback to haunt a spooky castle.
The scene is almost spooky: a tall, unfinished tower looming solitarily on a dusty plain.
The guys were supposed to be rock-solid, and she was supposed to be the loose cannon, the spooky little wallbanger Hawkins had dragged in off the street.
I take them all the way out to the end of Alii Drive and down the hill to that spooky little bay, and all the while I keep offering them a drink of hot gin out of a pint bottle with no top on it that I keep on the seat between my legs.
All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?
Pine trees came up to the sides of the road, and it was getting spooky.
And his aunts really did have the spooky powers everybody on the rez had always attributed to them.
Because there was a hollow spooky sound under the floorboards, they both felt immediately at home in this classroom assigned to the sixth, even though there was no Vistula flowing broad-shouldered between dikes outside the windows.
Had a wire been inadvertently tripped in the dreaded father-daughter territory, or had Jessie plunged haplessly down the rabbit hole of their life together, into the true history hidden away in these unexplored tunnels and warrens beneath the daily chitchat, the habitual sex -- the subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.
For a moment there was a stunning closeup view of Io in crescent phase, surrounded by the spooky yellow glow of sodium emission.
For as long as they don't string bobwire more than a half mile southwest of the road, it helps our own drift wire hold Rocking R stock back from that dangerous river and spooky road travel.
Over beyond the sacred enclosure, spectral figures of gauze or smoke rose pale into the night, and the spooky music led them in a counterpointing dance.
They aren't spooky ones at all, so don't get your hopes up on that score, but they are well-documented, at least.
It does super-sensitive, spooky little things like follow Noriega around before you invade him, or infiltrate the Iraqi capital a few days before the Gulf War air campaign to knock out the central computers that control their entire air defense system—.
She sank into a swamp of spooky speculation, from which she emerged with a start when a maid inquired if she wanted chocolate mousse or apple slices for dessert.