mook
/muːk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
Colloquial
noun
A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
name
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Colloquial