mook
mook · mooks
A disagreeable or incompetent personA disagreeable or incompetent person.
/muːk/
Meaning
3 senses(Northern US, US, slang)A disagreeable or incompetent person.
(colloquial)An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkFrom the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”); a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”); Irish muc (“pig”); Dutch mok, German Mocke, Mucke (both dialectal for “sow” and hence “slovenly or bothersome woman/person”); a corruption of Italian mammalucco (“fool”, literally “mamluk”).
Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).
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