name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mook
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/muːk/
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rhymes with -uːk
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/mʊk/
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rhymes with -ʊk
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CMU ARPABET: M UH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A disagreeable or incompetent person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-US, US, slang
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Topics: games, gaming
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bookazine, mag book
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”).
Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 木 (mù) — disagreeable person
- Finnish: mäntti — disagreeable person
- Polish: idiota — disagreeable person
- Polish: idiotka — disagreeable person
- Polish: głupek — disagreeable person
- Chinese Mandarin: 書誌 /书志 (shūzhì) — type of book
- Chinese Mandarin: 雜誌書 /杂志书 (zázhìshū) — type of book
- Japanese: ムック (mukku) — type of book
- Polish: mook — type of book
- Spanish: mook — type of book