"gook" (rhymes with "book")

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:48 PM -0500 3/18/05, sagehen wrote:
>Leaving aside "gook" and all the other /-oo-/ words -- like roof & root --
>that can go either way, I find that /k/ seems to be the most U-inspiring
>letter of the alphabet. I can come up off the top of my head with about 40
>/-oo-/ words  that sound the vowel as in "food." Only one of them ("spook")
>has a /k/.

How about "kook"?  Maybe that gets an /u/ because it derives (by
clipping) from "kookie".  "Mook" (short for "Mookie", proper name) is
certainly so analyzable.

Larry