Muggle.
A person who has no magical abilities.
Meaning & usage
A person who has no magical abilities.
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 or cowan.
This video game won’t appeal to muggles.
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 or cowan. A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
Where this word comes from
From mug (“gullible or easily cheated person”) + -le (diminutive suffix), coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. She later said in a 2004 interview that the word was made to imply both "foolishness and loveability".
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.