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muggled

muggled is the simple past and past participle of muggle.

Meaning of muggle

Verb (1)

muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle muggled)

  1. (dated, slang, transitive) 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

Verb (2)

muggle (third-person singular simple present muggles, present participle muggling, simple past and past participle muggled)

  1. (Ireland, UK, dated, dialectal, intransitive, slang) 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

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Questions about muggled

What is muggled the simple past and past participle of?
Muggled is the simple past and past participle of muggle.

Words near muggled in the dictionary

  1. mugginsed
  2. mugginses
  3. muggish
  4. muggle
  5. Muggle Quidditch
  6. muggled
  7. muggles
  8. Muggleswick
  9. Muggleton
  10. Muggletonian
  11. Muggletonianism

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