muggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: muggles
Etymology: See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.
Senses: examples: text: The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...].
ref: 2005, Christine Wicker, Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 194:
text: 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).
ref: 2007 November 11, Lesley Oldfield, “Family break a eureka moment”, in Sunday Sun, Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: There's another guy playing [Bob] Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.
ref: 2007 November 21, Gary Thompson, “Dylan divided by six”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.
A person who has no magical abilities.
examples: text: Some activists might know little of this ‘exterior’, such is their facility to move between activist spaces and places without having to encounter the ever-increasingly one-dimensional world in which the ‘muggles’ live.
ref: 2005, David Harvie, Ben Trott, Keir Milburn, editors, Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Dissent!; Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 343:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.
A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider.
examples: text: Try not to let the muggles see you find a Cache.
ref: 2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: Use Stealth. Commonly used in a place with a high muggle-to-geocacher ratio.
ref: 2010, Paul Gillin, Dana Gillin, “Appendix A: Glossary”, in The Joy of Geocaching […], Fresno, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, →ISBN, page 235:
text: Each time we made a find [Teresa] Hinton would check there were no muggles, or non-geocachers, around before taking the container from its hiding place.
ref: 2016 February 16, Selina Powell, “The hidden world of geocaching in Marlborough”, in Marlborough Express (reproduced on Stuff), Blenheim, New Zealand: Stuff, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2020:
text: Caches can be hidden in a disguised container, or very small package, and one element of difficulty is hiding caches in urban locations, where the hunter will have to avoid being spotted by ‘muggles’ – the name given to those unaware of the sport. Muggles will be surprised at the scale of the secret game taking place under their noses.
ref: 2018 February 6, Joseph Smith, “The ‘dead drop’ in Stokes Croft may be more than it appears”, in Bristol Post, Bristol, Somerset: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2018:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.
A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; also, a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider.
A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
antonyms: geocacher