muggle
Syllables: mug·gleUK/ˈmʌɡl̩/US/ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/
muggle noun: marijuana.
Noun (1)
muggle (countable and uncountable, plural muggles)
- 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"...1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 220
- The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.1963, Howard S[aul] Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, N.Y.: Free Press of Glencoe; London: Collier-Macmillan, →OCLC, page 142
- 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...1931 September 7, “Crime: Muggles”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2014
- “[...] Eddie, what is this cigarette? It tastes a bit like opium.” / “It’s a ‘muggles’, kid—Mex marijuana; it won’t hurt you any if you don’t inhale too deeply, but you’ll pass out if you do. [...]”1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 226
Noun (2)
muggle (plural 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, [...].2005, Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 194
- As it was nearing Halloween, we were able to join a potions class where we could change liquids into myriad colours with the addition of substances like dragon spit (muggle’s lemon juice).2007 November 11, Lesley Oldfield, “Family break a eureka moment”, in Sunday Sun, Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC
- 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.2005, David Harvie, Ben Trott, Keir Milburn, editors, Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Dissent!; Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia...
- A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
- Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89
- Use Stealth. Commonly used in a place with a high muggle-to-geocacher ratio.2010, Paul Gillin, Dana Gillin, “Appendix A: Glossary”, in The Joy of Geocaching […], Fresno, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, →ISBN, page 235
- Antonyms:
- geocacher
Verb (1)
muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle 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.2010, Katy Grant, chapter 1, in Hide and Seek, 1st trade paperback edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, published 2012, →ISBN, page 14
- Stolen or vandalized geocaches are termed "muggled" or "plundered".[2012, Allison Bruning, “Geocatching:^([sic – meaning Geocaching]) A Modern Day Treasure Hunt”, in Reflections: Poems and Essays, [Bloomington, Ind.?]: Mountain Springs House, →ISBN, page 118
Verb (2)
muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle 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.1872, Agrikler [pseudonym; Joseph Edwards], “Tha Man as Coodent Plaze Nubbody”, in Rhymes in the West of England Dialect. […], 2nd edition, Bristol, Somerset: Leech and Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 39
- I might have a made out to muggle along if so be Mister Jolly would a rised my wages, or the Union could a kept on taken care o' this last poor little un, till sich time as I might a married some'un to keep the childern tidy; [...]1873, [Edward Jenkins], “Justices’ Justice and Statutes at Large”, in Little Hodge, author’s edition, New York, N.Y.: Dodd & Mead, […], →OCLC, page 102
Noun (3) capitalized: Muggle
Muggle (plural 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, [...].2005, Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 194
- Once again, THE magic-working Karmidee, marginalized by THE Muggle-ish Normals, are threatened by a coup in THE city's government [...]2005 April 1, “Kirkus Reviews, review of Charlotte Haptie, Otto and the Bird Charmers”, in Dow Jones
- 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.
- [...] I have finally worked out that the word ECNALUBMA in back-to-front writing translates as 'get out of my way, you Muggle motorist'.2003 May 14, “There are too many flashing lights nowadays for a knight of the road …”, in Nursing Standard
- Synonyms:
- basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie
- 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.2004, Joel McNamara, Geocaching for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 125
- Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89
muggle meaning in Tamil
muggle in Tamil
- பயனற்றவர்
Examples of muggle in a sentence
- 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!1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 220:
- While marijuana was still legal in New York, businessmen wanted to package Mezz [Mezzrow]'s muggle and turn it into a high-powered criminal enterprise.2007, Ron Chepesiuk, “The White Mayor”, in Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood, Fort Lee...
- Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own.1933 June 12, “Hot Ambassador”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2007:
- But even then "muggle" smoking does not affect along a given pattern.1938 July 1, Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Oh.: Mansfield Journal Co., →OCLC:
Synonyms of muggle
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Forms of muggle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | muggles |
| plural | Muggles |
| alternative form | muggle |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | muggles |
| present participle | muggling |
| past participle | muggled |
| past | muggled |
Origin of muggle
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.
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.
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Questions about muggle
- What does muggle mean?
- Muggle means marijuana.
- What is muggle in Tamil?
- Muggle in Tamil is பயனற்றவர். See Muggle meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use muggle in a sentence?
- 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!
- What part of speech is muggle?
- Muggle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce muggle?
- Muggle is pronounced /ˈmʌɡl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of muggle?
- The plural of muggle is muggles.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: muggle (page history and authors); Muggle (page history and authors); muggle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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