A ghost. Dutch.
1801.
| If any wun you heart shool plunder, | |
| Mine horshes I’ll to Vaggon yoke, | |
| Und chase him quickly;—by mine dunder | |
| I fly so swift as any spook. | |
Hans’s letter to Noche, Mass. Spy, July 15. (An anticipation of ‘Hans Breitmann.’) |
1833. Pshaw, who ever heard of a spook eating?—J. K. Paulding, ‘The Banks of the Ohio,’ iii. 40 (Lond.).
1842. I sometimes fancy I hear him a-clatterin’ the ghosts of dishes in the entry, as tho’ he was bringin’ in a spook-dinner.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, March 7.
1842. All the answer which could be obtained from the agitated domestic was “der spukes! der tefil!”—Id., May 18.
a. 1853. There did I see a Spook, sure enough,—milk-white, and moving round.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iii. 158.
1882. A resident of Pennsylvania remarked, in the compiler’s hearing, that A. B. was “ugly enough to tree spooks.”
1896. You look just ’s if you’d seen a spook!—Ella Higginson, ‘Tales from Puget Sound,’ p. 160.
1909. His brain seems to be persistently haunted by the spooks of Gadshill.—N.Y. Evening Post, Oct. 11.
