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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



... him. He selected a more theatrical moment. We emerged from a narrow canyon suddenly upon five hundred cattle and some cow-boys branding calves by a fire in a corral. It was a sight that Buck knew by heart. He instantly treated it like an appalling phenomenon. I saw him kick seven ways; I saw Muggins kick five ways; our furious motion snapped my spine like a whip. I grasped the seat. Something gave a forlorn jingle. It ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... all," 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 way ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... his lordship to the host. "Must pay my respects to the dowager, what, what! Jolly old muggins, yes!" And he ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Muggins" :   goofball, wally, tomfool, flibbertigibbet, zany, fool, simple, morosoph, bozo, cuckoo, meshuggeneh, putz, saphead, fathead, ass



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