mook

Meaning

Noun

• A disagreeable or incompetent person.
• An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
• A book published in the form factor of a magazine.

Related

Similar words

• bookazine
• mag book

Origin

• Unknown. Perhaps a variant of moke (British slang), first appearing in the US in the 1930s.
• Alternately, it could be a corruption of the Italian and Neapolitan word mammalucco.