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Muggings vs Muggins - What's the difference?

muggings | muggins |

As nouns the difference between muggings and muggins

is that muggings is plural of mugging while muggins is a fool or idiot .

muggings

English

Noun

(head)

    • muggins

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
    • I suppose muggins here will have to do all the work, as usual.
  • (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly. House rules specify whether the mugginser gets the mugginsee's points or whether those points are simply lost.

    • Synonyms

    * cutthroat * cutthroat cribbage

    References

    * http://www.cribbage.org/rules/rule1.asp * http://www.pagat.com/adders/crib6.html
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