muggle
muggle Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill, or who lacks a specialized ability (originally in the fictional universe of Harry Potter, a person who possesses no magical abilities).
"The software developers had to explain the complex networking architecture in simple terms that any muggle could understand."
American A marijuana cigarette, or marijuana itself (chiefly in plural, historical 1920s–1930s jazz slang).
"Early jazz recordings from the late 1920s frequently contained coded references to smoking muggles."
• Rhymes for muggle
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in its modern sense by British author J.K. Rowling in 1997 for the Harry Potter series, adapted from the British slang word 'mug' (a gullible person or dupe) softened to sound less derogatory. In 1920s and 1930s American jazz slang, the plural form 'muggles' independently meant marijuana.