[HPforGrownups] Re: Translations

[robert haberfield]

No: HPFGUIDX 61057



"M.Clifford" <valkyrievixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "emmajess29" 
<cassandre.lamaudite at l...> wrote:
> Last question : I didn't know that "muggle" was a dictionnary word. 
> What does it mean ?


Valky Wrote:

To the best of my knowledge the word "muggle" is not in the english 
dictionary. In some english speaking communities the term "mug" is 
used in a kind of derogatory fashion in addressing someone who is 
ungainly or moronic. It's generally only quoted in humorous context 
though it is more rarely used as a serious insult than as an 
endearment. I tell you this because "muggle" always conjured up an 
affinity with this term for me as I found it in the books context.

Robert the Old

Muggle is now in the Oxford English Dict' and the meaning it has been given is:  "Any uninformed person."  pretty good I think.

Robert the Old



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