muggle
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muggle¹
- /ˈmʌɡl̩/ UK
- /ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/ US
Rhymes with -ʌɡəl
Where it comes from
Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.
noun muggles
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Marijuana.
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", c
Similar: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce
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A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
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
Similar: bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun, Camberwell carrot, doink, doinker, doob, doober
muggle²
- /ˈmʌɡl̩/ UK
- /ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/ US
Rhymes with -ʌɡəl
Where it comes from
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.
noun muggles
- 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, [...].
- 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. 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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A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.
Opposite: geocacher
verb muggles · muggling · muggled
- To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache. Okay, September 3. That was just last Monday—Labor Day—so the geocache had been muggled sometime during the past week.
muggle³
- /ˈmʌɡl̩/ UK
- /ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/ US
Rhymes with -ʌɡəl
Where it comes from
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.
verb muggles · muggling · muggled
- Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along. And zo thay muggled along, 'till tha volks all begun to make giame on them.
Muggle⁴
- /ˈmʌɡl̩/
Rhymes with -ʌɡəl
Where it comes from
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".
noun Muggles · muggle
- 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, [...].
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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.
This video game won’t appeal to muggles.
Similar: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie, square
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A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
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.
Similar: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie, square
Translations
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noun person who has no magical abilities
| Español | muggle |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 머글 meogeul |
| 日本語 | マグル maguru |
| 中文 | 麻瓜 máguā |
| हिन्दी | मगलू maglū |
| Português | Muggle, trouxa |
| Français | moldu, moldue, non-magique |
| Deutsch | Muggel |
| Italiano | babbano, babbana |
| Ελληνικά | Μύγαλος Mýgalos, Μαγκλ Magkl |
| Română | Încuiat, Încuiată, Mageamiu |
| Русский | магл magl, просте́ц prostéc, маггл maggl |
| Tiếng Việt | Muggle |
| العربية | مَغَل maḡal, مَجَل majal |
| עברית | מוּגְל muggl |
Talk about this word "muggle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/muggle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. muggle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/muggle "muggle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/muggle.Cite this
@misc{muggle_2026,
title = {muggle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muggle},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
