mook

From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”);^[1] a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”);^[2] 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”).

• IPA^(key): /muːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːk

mook (plural mooks)

1. (slang, US, chiefly Northern US) A disagreeable or incompetent person.^[3]
2. (colloquial, gaming) An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.

• mookish

Blend of magazine +‎ book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mʊk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊk

mook (plural mooks)

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

• bookazine
• mag book

• mook jong

• moko

• IPA^(key): /møːk/

mook

1. (intransitive) to close one's eyes

• Ian Maddieson, Victoria Anderson (1984) “Phonetic Structures of Iaai”, in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, volume 87, Los Angeles: UCLA, page 165 of 163-182

• muok

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /moˈʔok/ [moˈʔok̚]
• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: mo‧ok

moók (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜂᜃ᜔)

1. fierce fighting; hand-to-hand battle

• “mook”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

mook

1. cob, corn.