spooked adj.
1. under the influence of a malign spirit.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 9 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 713: He is spooked of it like a man is of a booby trapped house. | |
| letter 20 Feb. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 807: He is spooked to die. |
2. (also spooked up) frightened, alarmed.
 | Smoky the Cowhorse 176: Smoky had got spooked up at the sudden sight of the rider. | |
| letter 4 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 483: I’m spooked of the necessity to interrupt again. | |
| letter 5 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 852: He and two other doctors were very spooked by the analyses. | |
| Mama Black Widow 150: He galloped through the rear door [...] with his spooked hooligans tramping his heels. | |
| Fields of Fire (1980) 386: Goodrich was spooked. The whole sky hovered, grey and ominous, weeping on them. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | London Fields 403: I do hope you’re not going to be spooked by this TV business. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I hate to say it, but I was completely spooked. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 38: With that crash so close to him, he probably got spooked. | |
| Triggerfish Twist (2002) 270: He got buggy and spooked. | |
| I, Fatty 122: To know how spooked Zukor was, you have to know how dicey the whole film business was looking. | |
| Truth 20: I’m a bit spooked. There’s a car hanging around. | |
| Viva La Madness 108: I wasn’t spooked before when he was throwing it around at a hunded miles an hour. | |
| Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘She’s still pretty spooked’. | |
| Consolation 184: ‘Something’s not right [...] I’ve poked around and it’s got me a bit spooked. |
3. annoyed; disgusted.
| ‘Misc.’ in AS XXXIII:3 225: Somewhat less frequently aired are the synonyms for annoyed: bugged, dragged, spooked, hacked and hung. | |
| Layer Cake 24: His brief, who’s totally fuckin spooked by now with the geezer, agrees with us. |