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Muggle
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- 1 Marijuana. dated, in-plural, slang, uncountable
"But there was a drug in New Orleans, although it took me over nine months to find out anything about it—a drug of a very different and insidious kind! [...] It looked like chopped hay, or dried clover, and was rolled up in a double brown cigarette paper. In short, a "muggles", "weed", or "mootie", cannabis indica, Indian hemp, or, to give it its Mexican name, marijuana, which translated into English just means Mary Jane!"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.; A person who has no magical abilities. dated, slang
"The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...]."
- 3 A person who has no magical abilities.
"The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...]."
- 4 A marijuana cigarette; a joint. countable, dated, slang
"Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant."
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.; A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider. broadly, dated, slang
"Some activists might know little of this ‘exterior’, such is their facility to move between activist spaces and places without having to encounter the ever-increasingly one-dimensional world in which the ‘muggles’ live."
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- 6 A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; (also) a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider or cowan. broadly
"This video game won’t appeal to muggles."
- 7 Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.; A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider.; A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching. broadly, dated, slang, specifically
"Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache."
- 8 A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; (also) a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider or cowan.; A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching. broadly
"At some point when you're out geocaching, you'll run into Muggles. The trouble with Muggles is they have no idea what the sport of geocaching is all about. If they see you find a cache, they might get into the cache after you leave—to see what you were up to."
- 1 To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache. dated, slang, transitive
"Okay, September 3. That was just last Monday—Labor Day—so the geocache had been muggled sometime during the past week."
- 2 Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along. Ireland, UK, dated, dialectal, intransitive, slang
"And zo thay muggled along, 'till tha volks all begun to make giame on them."
Etymology
Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.
See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.
See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.
Origin unknown; attested in Berkshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, the West Country, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. The word is possibly a variant of muddle.
From mug (“gullible or easily cheated person”) + -le (diminutive suffix), coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. She later said in a 2004 interview that the word was made to imply both "foolishness and loveability".
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