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Spooked vs Stooked - What's the difference?

spooked | stooked |

As verbs the difference between spooked and stooked

is that spooked is (spook) while stooked is (stook).

As an adjective spooked

is a little scared; worried by a feeling or event describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.

spooked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.
  • Being spied upon by security or intelligence services.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (spook)

    • stooked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stook)

    • stook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
    • And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
  • * 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
    • The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) to make stooks

    • Derived terms

    * stooker

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