Etymograph

English

spookspeak

From spook + -speak.

Formed from spook + -speak

Middle Dutch spooc ‘spook, ghost’

Dutch spook ‘ghost’

English spook

Today it means

noun The jargon of espionage.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “spookspeak”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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