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Mook

//muːk// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A disagreeable or incompetent person. Northern-US, US, slang
  2. 2
    A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
  3. 3
    An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero. colloquial

Etymology

Etymology 1

From 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”).

Etymology 2

Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).

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