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mook¹

  • /muːk/

Rhymes with -uːk

Where it comes from

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”).

noun mooks

  1. Northern US, US, slang A disagreeable or incompetent person.
  2. colloquial An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.

mook²

  • /mʊk/

Rhymes with -ʊk

Where it comes from

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

noun mooks

  1. A book published in the form factor of a magazine.

    Similar: bookazine, mag book

Mook³

proper noun Mooks

  1. A surname.

Translations

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noun disagreeable person

中文木 mù

noun type of book

Españolmook
日本語ムック mukku
中文書誌 /书志 shūzhì, 雜誌書 /杂志书 zázhìshū

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"mook." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mook. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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mook. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mook

Chicago

"mook." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mook.

BibTeX
@misc{mook_2026,
  title = {mook},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mook},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}