Muggle

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Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Noun 2.1 Usage notes 2.2 Translations 3 See also

Etymology

In the modern sense, from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels

Noun

muggle (muggles)

1. (Muggle) Someone “without a drop of magical blood in them”, a non-magical human being (see usage note 1).
2. By extension, a specialised term used by members of a group to refer to someone outside that group (see usage note 2).
3. Marijuana or the use of.(see usage note 3).

Usage notes

1. Muggle is capitalised in the Harry Potter books but spelled with a lower-case initial in the other senses.
2. In the sense of someone not belonging to a group, the term is used by groups such as pagans to refer to non-pagans and IT support professionals to refer to the computer-illiterate. Compare mundane, previously used by some of the same groups for the same purpose.
3. Some sources say that muggle in the sense of marijuana is obsolete, but see [1], which considers it still to be a “street term”.

Translations

• Chinese: 痲瓜, 痳瓜 (máguā) (1)
• Dutch: dreuzel (1)
• Finnish: Jästi m (1)
• French: Moldu m (1)
• German: Muggel m (1)
• Greek (Ancient): Μύγαλος (1)
• Hebrew: מוּגְל m (1)
• Italian: Babbano m (1)
• Japanese: マグル (magaru) (1)
• Latin: Muggle (1)
• Polish: Mugol m, Mugolka f (2)
• Portuguese: Muggle m (1) (Portugal), trouxa m (1) (Brazil)
• Slovak: mukel m (1)
• Slovene: bunkelj m (1)
• Spanish: muggle m (1)
• Swedish: mugglare c (1)
• Vietnamese: Muggle (1)

See also

• Wikipedia article on Muggles in Harry Potter, muggles (outsiders) and muggle (marijuana)