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Spoomed vs Spooked - What's the difference?

spoomed | spooked |

As verbs the difference between spoomed and spooked

is that spoomed is (spoom) while spooked is (spook).

As an adjective spooked is

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

spoomed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spoom)

    • spoom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
  • * 17th century : Samuel Pepys
    • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
  • * 17th century : John Dryden
    • When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.

    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)