A 'mook' is someone with little to no social life and someone considered untrustworthy.
slang. : a foolish, insignificant, or contemptible person.
goona (uncountable) (Australian Aboriginal) faeces, excrement, stool quotations ▼
Even ordinary mooks like you and me have been stuffing their blotters and backs of envelopes in safe deposits for posterity. Like many slang words, its origin is not known for sure, but it may come from the older moke. That word appears in 1839 in the form moak and meaning a donkey.
Gubbah, also spelt gubba, is a term used by some Aboriginal people to refer to white people or non-Aboriginal people. The Macquarie Dictionary has it as "n. Colloq. (derog.) an Aboriginal term for a white man".
Goori (plural Gooris) An Australian aboriginal person.
Yabba, an English word of Australian Aboriginal origin meaning "to talk"
The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang says a “mook” is “an ineffectual, foolish, or contemptible person.” And Green's Dictionary of Slang describes it as “a general term of abuse, a foolish person.” All three dictionaries cite a humor piece by S. J.
Dutch (also Van Mook): habitational name for someone from a place called Mook in Dutch Limburg.
Minga is a Quechua word meaning “collective work” with wide currency among popular and poor sectors, both indigenous and mestizo, of the Andean republics.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
'Aborigine' is generally perceived as insensitive, because it has racist connotations from Australia's colonial past, and lumps people with diverse backgrounds into a single group. You're more likely to make friends by saying 'Aboriginal person', 'Aboriginal' or 'Torres Strait Islander'.
“A mook? What's a mook?” asks “Johnny Boy” Civello, the fast-talking gambling debtor in Martin Scorsese's 1973 film Mean Streets. For years, “mook” existed in English as an obscure slang term referring to “a foolish, insignificant, or contemptible person” (as Merriam-Webster's Online defines it).
The king was delighted, the princess waved her veil, and the people all shouted, “Huzza for Little Mook!”
A mook (/mʊk/) is a publication which is physically similar to a magazine but is intended to remain on bookstore shelves for longer periods than traditional magazines, and is a popular format in Japan. The term is a portmanteau of "magazine" and "book".
Scottish (Lanarkshire): from the personal name Mungo which is of Brittonic origin but unknown meaning. In Scotland and northern England Mungo was used amongst devotees of the cult of 6th-century Saint Kentigern patron of Glasgow for whom it was a pet name. This surname is rare in Britain.
(Australia, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
Koori (or Koorie)
Koori is a term denoting an Aboriginal person of southern New South Wales or Victoria.
I've had quite a few people ask this question!! The term 'lubly' is simply used by Indigenous peoples meaning 'lovely' or 'good', these lubly tops will 100% be ally and mob friendly ?
Gabâ or gabaa, for the people in many parts of the [cebu] particularly among Visayans, is the concept of a non-human and non-divine, imminent retribution. A sort of negative karma, it is generally seen as an evil effect on a person because of their wrongdoings or transgressions.
More appropriate
Aboriginal language people terms such as 'Koori', 'Murri', 'Nyoongah' are appropriate for the areas where they apply. About 80% of the Torres Strait Island population now resides outside the Torres Strait and as such, local terminology such as Murray Island Peoples and Mer Island Peoples is also used.
A 164 acre grant issued to P Larkins on 30 January 1837 is described as "at Yalla". Yallah is an Aboriginal word for which a number of meanings are given, including: native apple tree. a nearby lagoon.