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Muggins  v. t.  In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Muggins" Quotes from Famous Books



... a minute," said she, "you fat old muggins! Look at him, Shandon. He knows I'm strange. Yes, 'course you do! He wants to go back to you, Shandy. Well, what do you know about that? Say, dearie," continued Mrs. Larabee, in a lower tone, "you've got a terrible handsome boy, and ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris

... was vociferated in an instant by a jolly good-natured looking man exalted above the rest, who, at the same moment, rapped the table with his knuckles—"This here vay, gentlemen—Bill Muggins, mind you I arn't had your penny ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... James and I had a good comfortable chat, the boys being at Gattonside House. I am glad to see him bear up against misfortune like a man. "Bread we shall eat, or white or brown," that's the moral of it, Master Muggins. ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... returned Little, unrebuked. "Think I'm an easy mark, hey? Muggins from Muggsville? Come again, Barry. Beg pardon, Cap'n Barry, I should say. Haul th' bowline! Jack up th' fo'c'sle yard! See, I'm also a tarry shellback ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... out as a scout, and, after traveling all day, I was returning from the Yankee outposts at Atlanta, and had captured a Yankee prisoner, who I then had under my charge, and whom I afterwards carried and delivered to General Hood. He was a considerable muggins, and a great coward, in fact, a Yankee deserter. I soon found out that there was no harm in him, as he was tired of war anyhow, and was anxious to go to prison. We went into an old log cabin near the road until the rain would be over. I was standing in the cabin door looking at the ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins

... as he was leaning over the side of the ship near the bow, gazing contemplatively down into the unfathomable sea, he overheard a conversation between the cook and one of the sailors named Muggins. They were smoking their pipes seated on the heel ...
— Sunk at Sea • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Muggins" :   simpleton, saphead, jackass, fathead, fool, putz, wally, foolish woman, cuckoo, meshuggeneh, simple, clown, tomfool, goof, sap, bozo, buffoon, flibbertigibbet, morosoph, fucker



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