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mookish

mookish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.

Adjective

mookish (comparative more mookish, superlative most mookish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.
    • He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the...1999 August, Zev Borow, “How to Succeed in Bizness...by Really, Really Trying”, in Spin, pages 97–98
    • The small hovels and junkyards outside Basra look like a Star Wars set: I'm waiting for a bunch of mookish little guys to attack us with sticks, but instead we find two guys pushing handcarts loaded with rolls of heavy power cable along the side of the highway.2005, David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation, The University of Michigan Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 62

Forms of mookish

comparativemore mookish
superlativemost mookish

Origin of mookish

From mook (“a disagreeable or incompetent person”) + -ish.

Questions about mookish

What does mookish mean?
Mookish means resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.
What part of speech is mookish?
Mookish is an adjective.

Words near mookish in the dictionary

  1. Mookerawa
  2. mookhtar
  3. mookhtars
  4. Mookie
  5. Mookima Wybra
  6. mookish
  7. mooks
  8. mooktar
  9. mooktars
  10. mooktear
  11. mooktears

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