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1
easily excited by nature
- a spooky horse shying at shadows
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2
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
- a spooky tale of strange hauntings and mysterious reincarnations
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- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- inscrutable,
- mysterious,
- puzzling
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The first known use of spooky was in 1854
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