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Smuggled vs Muggled - What's the difference?

smuggled | muggled |

As verbs the difference between smuggled and muggled

is that smuggled is (smuggle) while muggled is (muggle).

smuggled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (smuggle)

    • smuggle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Verb

    (wikipedia smuggle) (smuggl)
  • (intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
  • To bring in surreptitiously
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
  • (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.

    • Derived terms

    * smuggling * smuggler

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -le

    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.