muke

Alternative form of mook.

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of mook.
    • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live...

Forms

mukes

Noun human sciences, mysticism

  1. A kind of tree spirit.
    • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ According to the fifth-century Gazette of...

Origin

Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Forms

muke