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spoopy

(film, literature, television) Involving horror concepts and tropes in comical, cute, or nonthreatening ways.

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Born ~2009 · 1 year of recorded use
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#1·Apr 26, 2026

(film, literature, television) Involving horror concepts and tropes in comical, cute, or nonthreatening ways.

To get into the spoopy spirit, you will exclusively listen to the "Spooky Scary Skeletons" trap remix on repeat from now until Halloween.
Origin: A misspelling of spooky, originating from a 2009 photograph of a Halloween sign with the misspelled word spoopy originally uploaded to the website Flickr. It was reposted on Tumblr in 2011, upon which the word become an Internet meme and developed its current senses. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “1. Nickname? Spoopy, sbooby, spoobert,,,,, Stinky gets thrown in there quite often too lmao”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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