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Synonyms for poltergeist

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pohl-ter-gahyst
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊl tərˌgaɪst

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Définition of poltergeist

Origin :
  • 1838, from German Poltergeist, literally "noisy ghost," from poltern "make noise, rattle" (from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, ring, roar;" cf. bellow, bell) + Geist "ghost" (see ghost). In the native idiom of Northern England, such phenomenon likely would be credited to a boggart.
  • noun ghost
Example sentences :
  • I was told you claimed you had to have a poltergeist in the process.
  • Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • Yet where did these articles go, and of what use would they be to a poltergeist?
  • Extract from : « Byways of Ghost-Land » by Elliott O'Donnell
  • In case you rejected our applicant for the poltergeist job you have in mind, I was to hand you this.
  • Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • On this theory they sent her to her home in a neighboring village, where the poltergeist continued to annoy her.
  • Extract from : « Adventurings in the Psychical » by H. Addington Bruce
  • Poltergeist phenomena, however, seldom coincide with the ordinary phenomena of a haunt.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • Perhaps, if he took no notice, the poltergeist would be discouraged and subside.
  • Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
  • If trickery is not detected the poltergeist is the manifestation of an evil spirit.
  • Extract from : « Spiritualism and the New Psychology » by Millais Culpin
  • The poltergeist phenomenon is usually spectacular and is nearly always associated with teen-age neurotics.
  • Extract from : « Psichopath » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • A poltergeist that up to the present had confined its attentions to me, no one else in the house having either heard or seen it.
  • Extract from : « Byways of Ghost-Land » by Elliott O'Donnell
  • Well, sir, I don't know if you have ever heard of the Henker's Poltergeist, but it is a fact well known to all in the township.
  • Extract from : « Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II » by Alexander Huth

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