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Commoner vs Muggle - What's the difference?

commoner | muggle |

In obsolete terms the difference between commoner and muggle

is that commoner is a prostitute while muggle is to be restless.

As nouns the difference between commoner and muggle

is that commoner is a member of the common people who holds no title or rank while muggle is a marijuana cigarette; a joint.

As an adjective commoner

is comparative of common.

As a verb muggle is

to remove, deface or destroy a geocache.

commoner

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(head)
  • (common)
  • Usage notes
    * The potential for confusion with use of the noun as an adjective, especially in the UK, makes this form less desirable. It is much less commonly used than "more common".

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia commoner) (en noun)
  • A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
  • (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
  • * Hallam
  • All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners , and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
  • (British, at Oxbridge universities) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
  • (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
  • Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Much good land might be gained from forests and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
  • (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
  • (Fuller)
  • (obsolete) A prostitute.
  • (Shakespeare)

    muggle

    English

    Etymology 1

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in singular or plural, dated) A marijuana cigarette; 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 […].
  • * 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 51:
  • "Ever smoke any muggles ?" he asked me. "Man, this is some golden-leaf I brought up from New Orleans, it'll make you feel good, take a puff."
  • (slang) hot chocolate
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has no magical abilities.
  • *1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv
  • A Muggle',’ said Hagrid. ‘It’s what we call non-magic folk like them. An’]] it’s your bad luck you grew up in a family [[o', o’ the biggest ' Muggles I ever laid eyes on.
  • * 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.
  • (skilled or specialized groups) A person who lacks a skill or is not a member of the group.
  • this video game won't appeal to muggles
    Synonyms
    * (member of outgroup) see

    Verb

  • (in geocaching) To remove, deface or destroy a geocache.
  • Etymology 3

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    Verb

  • (obsolete) To be restless.