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Muggled vs Mugged - What's the difference?

muggled | mugged |

As verbs the difference between muggled and mugged

is that muggled is (muggle) while mugged is (mug).

muggled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (muggle)

    • 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.

    • mugged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mug)

    • mug

    English

    Adjective

    (mugger)
  • (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  • (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
    • What an ugly mug .
  • (slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    • He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  • (UK, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.

    • Synonyms

    * (face) mush * (gullible person) See

    Derived terms

    (face) * mug book * mug shot (gullible person) * mug’s game

    See also

    * cup * pannikin

    Descendants

    * Finnish: (l) * Swedish: (l)

    Verb

    (mugg)
  • To strike in the face.
  • *1821 , The Fancy , i. p.261:
  • *:Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.
  • *1857 , "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue
  • *:And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
  • *1866 , London Miscellany , 5 May, p.102:
  • *:"Suppose they had Mugged' you?" / "Done what to me?" / "' Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."
  • (lb) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
  • (lb) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
  • :
  • (lb) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

    • References

    Derived terms

    * mug off * mug up

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