Complete Definition of "muggle"

see|Muggle
English

Pronunciation
IPA|/�m�ɡ�l/
rhymes|�ɡ�l

Etymology 1
Origin unknown. First known to come into usage in New Orleans in the mid-1920s.

Noun
en-noun

  1. context|in singular or plural|dated marijuana|Marijuana; a joint.

#*1933, "Hot Ambassador", Time Magazine, 12 June, 1933
#*:Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own.
#*1938, Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper), July 1, 1938, Mansfield, Ohio
#*:But even then "muggle" smoking does not affect along a given Pattern. [�]. Case after Case in which criminals have admitted Smoking "muggles" indicates [�].

  1. slang hot chocolate

Etymology 2
coinage from the Harry Potter books

Noun
en-noun

  1. A person who is not a member of the magical community.

#*2005, Christine Wicker, Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America, page 194
#*:The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [�].
#*2007, Lesley Oldfield, "Family break a Eureka moment", Newcastle Sunday Sun (UK), Nov. 11, 2007
#*: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, Gary Thompson, "Dylan divided by six", Philadelphia Daily News, PA, Nov. 21, 2007
#*:There's another guy playing Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.

  1. context|skilled or specialized groups a person who lacks a skill or is not a member of said group.

Verb
en-verb|muggles|muggling|muggled|muggled

  1. transitive context|in geocaching To remove, deface or destroy a geocache.

Etymology 3
unknown

Verb
en-verb|muggles|muggling|muggled|muggled

  1. obsolete To be restless.

Category:Recreational drugs

vi:muggle
Category:Harry Potter

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