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mook

 (mo͞ok)
n. Slang
A foolish or contemptible person.
[Probably alteration of moke.]
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mook

(muːk)
n
slang US a person regarded with contempt, esp a stupid person
[of uncertain origin]
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The man on the farm was a half-witted old fellow named Mook. He had once been employed by Ebenezer Cowley and had stayed on the farm when it was sold.
Why look here, Mook, father doesn't know that his store there in town is just a queer jumble, that he'll never sell the stuff he buys.
"Well, well, I'll be washed and ironed." Mook was interested.
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Junior Mooks Aschema has played the last two games at tailback and gained 92 yards.
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If all they did was wait for a break in play and then shouted "Come on, Michael" or "Come on, Obafemi" in screechy tones, they would look just as silly as the mooks in Centre Court wearing Union flag waistcoats.
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Add subplots about straight mobsters who would rather be cooking and sewing, gun-wielding mooks who need lessons in "acting gay," wacky archconservative militia members, and some 11th-hour drag queens, and you've got one miserable minestrone.
With friends like these ... the gay mob comedy Friends and Family sleeps with the fishes
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You can get away with very bold prints and the unforgiving collarless shirt 1 Oriental print pounds 50 French Connection 2 Belted pounds 45 Mooks 3 Ditzy print pounds 28 M&S 4 Collarless pounds 14.99 Cherokee at Tesco
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