mookishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

mook (“a disagreeable または incompetent person”) +‎ -ish

形容詞

mookish (comparative more mookish, superlative most mookish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.
   • 1999, Zev Borow, "How to Succeed in Bizness...by Really, Really Trying", Spin, August 1999, 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 (2006), →ISBN, 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, Lulu (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

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

関連する語

• Thesaurus:foolish