Spooktacular (Halloween spectacular) (1897, 1943)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 9/19/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> SPOOKTACULAR--392,000 Google hits
> ...
> OED? HDAS?

Double-Tongued Word Wrester has an entry for "-tacular" with a 1958
cite for "spook-tacular", but Barry's cites easily antedate that.

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/tacular/


--Ben Zimmer

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