mook
/muːk
/noun US informal
A stupid or incompetent person: if you don’t want to look like every other mook you need a sartorial trademark...
- It is now the domain of those who are paid to write and the rest of us mooks are no longer relevant.
- Then kids watch those images and aspire to be that mook or midriff in the TV set.
- I only hope we'll be lucky, and the marketing mooks and midriffs will learn this before it comes crashing down on all of our heads.
Origin
1930s: of uncertain origin.