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Spook Ghost 两者对比,发现都是略掉了字母g Dutch Middle Spok Meaning Attested

正面 13280.spook
英 [spuːk]美

背面
释义:
n. 鬼;幽灵vt. 惊吓;鬼怪般地出没vi. 受惊
例句:
1. At night, he would creep out of the house like a spook.夜间, 他常常像幽灵一般地从家里偷偷地出来.

1. flail, frail: 打谷子用扁担,l 是扁担、连盖,r像一朵花,花脆弱.2. flagellum => flail. 尾部指小后缀变成了 -il , 两者对比,发现都是略掉了字母g. 很小、很窄、比较窄的旗帜是不是就很像鞭子啊!3. fragile => frail. 两者对比,发现都是略掉了字母g.
spook 鬼怪,幽灵,间谍,特工来自荷兰语 spook,鬼怪,幽灵,词源不详,可能改写自 specter,鬼怪,幽灵。引申词义间谍 , 特工,字面意思即内鬼。
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 spøg "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."

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