EERIE, EERINESS
ADJECTIVES
► CREEPIFIED frightened; frightening, eerie → 1942 Amer. dial.
► OORIE apprehensive, uneasy, affected by a feeling of the supernatural; superstitiously afraid; in dread of spirits, eerie → 1877 Sc.
► OORLICK of things: sad and depressing, eerie → 1922 Sc.
► POKEY ► POKY spooky, scary, eerie → 1858 Amer. dial.
► SPOOKY eerie and supernatural; frightening → 1854 sl., orig. US
► WANCHANCIE ► WANCHANCY eerie, uncanny → 1768 Sc.
NOUNS
► ELDRITCHERY eeriness → 1950 Sc.
► POKERISHNESS a being frightening; scariness; eeriness → 1845 US colloq., obs.
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