the definition of a mook

(please note, the following were found on the internet, so they must be true)

Several people have been asking what exactly a 'mook' is, well, you'll be thrilled to know that after some exhaustive research we have come up with some genuine defintions. Just place your mouse over the pot 'o gold.

Lo Phat Ham whoever he is, came up with this rather authorative definition of the term 'mook' and he has traced 'mook' back all the way to it's original source 'Jamoke':
We like this one, it came from "http://thundercrack.hispeed.com/mooksville":
For the bods out there, mook is actually a word recognised and acknowledged (albeit as slang) by the word gurus at "www.dictionary.com":
Well, we were intrigued by this "moke" malarky and the following definitions certainly shed some more light on the pressing issue:

*please note for those of you who are wondering as to the relevance of the last definition: "a minstrel, who plays on several instruments", well we have one such "mook", or "moke" should we say in the mook pad by the name of kristophe. Kristophe plays the flute.

"Jamoke, meaning "a stupid or inconsequential fellow," is used mainly in informal speech or slang and only rarely appears in print.
Jamoke is thought to have originated about a century ago as jamocha in the argot of sailors or gangsters (or perhaps both). Jamocha was probably a blend of Java and Mocha, names of two locations famous for their coffee beans. What does coffee have to do with a stupid fellow? Nothing. In its original incarnation, jamocha was jargon for a cup of coffee, used much in the same way we use cup of java today. As recently as the Prohibition era, a writer used the "coffee" sense, observing, "There ain't nothin' stronger in the booze line than pure alky mixed with jamocha." We're not sure how jamocha made the jump from coffee to cretins, but the extension of meaning seems to have occurred during the 1920s. It was then that members of the U.S. military began referring to each other first as jamochas (perhaps to identify someone who wasn't any brighter or more important than a cup of coffee) and then as jamochs. The word seems to have settled into its jamoke spelling during the 1940s."

A mook is a sap. Maybe not always, maybe not to everyone, but at least in some situation or to some person, this individual is uncommonly sweet. Though perhaps s/he might not want to acknowledge that. ;-)"

n. Slang
An insignificant or contemptible person.
[Probably alteration of moke.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

moke Pronunciation Key (mk)
n. Slang
1. A dull or boring person.
2. Chiefly British. A donkey.
3. Australian. An old, broken-down horse.

[Origin unknown.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

moke
\Moke\, n. 1. A stupid person; a dolt; a donkey.
2. A negro. [U. S.]
3. (Theat. Slang) [More fully musical moke.] A performer, as a minstrel, who plays on several instruments.*

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.