mook · noun1
- Italian · derived frommammalucco“fool”
- German · derived fromMocke
- Dutch · derived frommok
- Irish · derived frommuc“pig”
- English todaymook
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”).
mook · noun2
- Japanese · borrowed fromムック
- English todaymook
Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.