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Étymologie

Du néerlandais spook.

Nom commun

Davantage d’informations Singulier, Pluriel ...

spook \spuːk\

  1. Fantôme, spectre.
  2. Apparition (être imaginaire).
  3. (Argot) Espion.
  4. (Péjoratif) (Argot) (Vieilli) Nègre.
    • Almost immediately Mel was summoned by university authorities to justify his use of the word “spooks,” since the two missing students, as it happened, were both African-American, and “spooks” at one time in America was a pejorative designation for blacks, spoken venom milder than “nigger” but intentionally degrading nonetheless. — (Philip Roth, An Open Letter to Wikipedia, 2012)
      La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

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Synonymes

fantôme (1)
nègre (4)

Verbe

Davantage d’informations Temps, Forme ...

spook \spuːk\

  1. Effrayer, effaroucher.


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Néerlandais

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