muggle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmʌɡl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/
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• rhymes with -ʌɡəl
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• /ˈmʌɡl̩/
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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.

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".

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.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَغَل (maḡal) — person who has no magical abilities
• Arabic: مَجَل (majal) — person who has no magical abilities
• Belarusian: магл (mahl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Bengali: মাগোল (magōl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Bulgarian: мъ́гъл (mǎ́gǎl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Catalan: Muggle — person who has no magical abilities
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻瓜 (máguā) — person who has no magical abilities
• Czech: Mudla — person who has no magical abilities
• Dutch: dreuzel — person who has no magical abilities
• Esperanto: moglo — person who has no magical abilities
• Estonian: Mugu — person who has no magical abilities
• Finnish: jästi — person who has no magical abilities
• French: moldu — person who has no magical abilities
• French: moldue — person who has no magical abilities
• French: non-magique — person who has no magical abilities
• Georgian: მაგლი (magli) — person who has no magical abilities
• German: Muggel — person who has no magical abilities
• Greek: Μύγαλος (Mýgalos) — person who has no magical abilities
• Greek: Μαγκλ (Magkl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Hebrew: מוּגְל (muggl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Hindi: मगलू (maglū) — person who has no magical abilities
• Hungarian: Muglik — person who has no magical abilities
• Icelandic: Muggi — person who has no magical abilities
• Irish: Mugal — person who has no magical abilities
• Italian: babbano — person who has no magical abilities
• Italian: babbana — person who has no magical abilities
• Japanese: マグル (maguru) — person who has no magical abilities
• Korean: 머글 (meogeul) — person who has no magical abilities
• Latin: Muggle — person who has no magical abilities
• Lithuanian: Žiobaras — person who has no magical abilities
• Macedonian: магл (magl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Norwegian: gomp — person who has no magical abilities
• Persian: مشنگ (mašang) — person who has no magical abilities
• Polish: mugol — person who has no magical abilities
• Portuguese: Muggle — person who has no magical abilities
• Portuguese: trouxa — person who has no magical abilities
• Romanian: Încuiat — person who has no magical abilities
• Romanian: Încuiată — person who has no magical abilities
• Romanian: Mageamiu — person who has no magical abilities
• Russian: магл (magl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Russian: просте́ц (prostéc) — person who has no magical abilities
• Russian: маггл (maggl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Serbo-Croatian: нормалац — person who has no magical abilities
• Serbo-Croatian: безјак — person who has no magical abilities
• Serbo-Croatian: normalac — person who has no magical abilities
• Serbo-Croatian: bezjak — person who has no magical abilities
• Slovak: mukel — person who has no magical abilities
• Slovene: bunkelj — person who has no magical abilities
• Spanish: muggle — person who has no magical abilities
• Swedish: mugglare — person who has no magical abilities
• Thai: มักเกิ้ล (mákgêrn) — person who has no magical abilities
• Turkish: muggle — person who has no magical abilities
• Ukrainian: маґл (magl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Ukrainian: магл (mahl) — person who has no magical abilities
• Vietnamese: Muggle — person who has no magical abilities