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muggins

[ muhg-inz ]

noun

  1. a convention in the card game of cribbage in which a player scores points overlooked by an opponent.
  2. a game of dominoes, in which any player who can make the sum of two ends of the line equal five or a multiple of five adds the number so made to their score.
  3. British Slang. a fool.


muggins

/ ˈmʌɡɪnz /

noun

  1. slang.
    1. a simpleton; silly person
    2. a title used humorously to refer to oneself
  2. a variation on the game of dominoes
  3. a card game
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of muggins1

First recorded in 1850–55; probably special use of proper name; muggins def 3 by association with mug ( def 4 )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of muggins1

C19: probably from the surname Muggins
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Example Sentences

“And she’s no one left, so here I am, muggins here, taking her to a laying out when I’ve a million other stones to be lifted off the pile.”

My disc jockeying isn't some vanity project to get muggins here back on the idiot box.

Prisoners don't have geese running around the donjon-keep to pull pens out of, you muggins.

A minister's wife can't dance anything but the Virginia reel, nor play anything more than muggins.

"We found Little Blue Flower a sweet little muggins," Beverly told the Indian early in our stay at the fort.

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