Wiktionary
spooking
vb. (present participle of spook English)
Usage examples of "spooking".
Maybe groups were still spooking each other off at minor alarms, moving out of their territories in panic and not yet able to reestablish boundaries for themselves and settle down to a normal winter.
Cloud was on the edge of spooking out into the open to argue with the intruders.
It was spooking around out there near the village when you had your quarrel.
No sense in spooking themthe long wilderness vacation had made her a little sloppy.
Besides which, there was no way to know whether a calf on the verge of spooking would exhibit the same signs of distress that an adult space horse would.