spooking
English edit
Verb edit
spooking
- present participle and gerund of spook
Noun edit
spooking (countable and uncountable, plural spookings)
- A supernatural fright.
- 1981, Selecta: Journal of the PNCFL, page 106:
- Until her death Marie maintained that it was she and a few other fun-loving and lively girls who had started the spookings at the expense of the superstitious sisters.
- (blackjack, slang) The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.