| spoof | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, takeoff, travesty |
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| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, parody |
| spook | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith |
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| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
| spookily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: eerily |
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| spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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| spool | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, reel |
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| (verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
| (verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
| spoon | (noun) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food | - |
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| (noun) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face | - |
| (noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoonful |
| (verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon | - |
| (verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: smooch |
| spoonbill | (noun) wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | - |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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| spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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| spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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| (verb) feed with a spoon | - |
| spoonfeeding | (noun) feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon | - |
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| (noun) teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought | - |
| spoonflower | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| spoonful | (noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoon |
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| spoonie | (noun) someone with a chronic illness | - |
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| spoopy | (adjective) funny and spooky at the same time | - |
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| spoor | (noun) the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game | - |
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