mookish

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

mookish (comparative more mookish, superlative most mookish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.
   • 1999 August, Zev Borow, “How to Succeed in Bizness...by Really, Really Trying”, in Spin, pages 97–98:

     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 clown.

   • 2005, David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation, The University of Michigan Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 62:

     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.

   • 2014, Kevin Mcconaghy, Hot Fudge Sundaes for Breakfast: With One Reason Not to Hurl Myself Off of the Roof of an Atlantic City Casino Parking Garage‎^[1], Lulu, →ISBN:

     The first is the “mookish,” pot smoking, dimwit movie character type or moron in a beer commercial.

Related terms

• Thesaurus:foolish