mook

Meanings

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

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

1. A surname.

Etymology

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”).