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muke

Syllables: mu·ke

muke is the alternative form of mook.

Meaning of mook

Noun (1)

mook (plural mooks)

  1. (Northern-US, US, slang) A disagreeable or incompetent person.
  2. (colloquial) An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.

Noun (2)

mook (plural mooks)

  1. A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
    Synonyms:
    bookazine, mag book

See all 4 meanings of mook

Noun

muke (plural muke)

  1. (Chinese) A kind of tree spirit.
    • According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye...2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ

Forms of muke

pluralmukes
pluralmuke

Origin of muke

Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Questions about muke

What does muke mean?
Muke means a kind of tree spirit.
What is muke the alternative form of?
Muke is the alternative form of mook.
What part of speech is muke?
Muke is a noun.
What is the plural of muke?
The plural of muke is mukes.

Words near muke in the dictionary

  1. mukbanging
  2. mukbangs
  3. Mukdahan
  4. Mukden
  5. Mukdisha
  6. muke
  7. Muker
  8. mukes
  9. Mukha
  10. mukhabarat
  11. mukhabarats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muke (page history and authors); mook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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