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muggins

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As a noun, muggins means a fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).

Meanings of muggins

5 meanings

noun

  1. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).

    “I suppose muggins here will have to do all the work, as usual.”

  2. cribbageThe act of stealing another player's points because they either mispegged or counted up incorrectly.

  3. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.

  4. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.

  5. A person who lacks good judgmentperson

    Similar: fool, sap, saphead, tomfool

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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noun: a person who lacks good judgment

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