mook

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disagreeable or incompetent person. Northern-US,US,slang
  2. A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
  3. An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero. colloquial

词形变化

mooks plural mooks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mookish

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).
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