Thread:User talk:QuestionableSanity/Great idea on the Esoteric Trope Name category/reply (3)

I have to agree with Vorticity -- "Mook" dates back to at least 1930, although the sense in which we use it here is a bit more recent (and by no means created by TVT).

This is my main concern with the Esoteric Tropes Name category -- it's very easy for a user with a small reference pool to mistake an obscure but perfectly good English word (or a bit of industry jargon which is being appropriately used) for a neologism or unique usage coined by a troper. We need to watch these page assignments a bit more closely.