See muggle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2016 February 16, Selina Powell, “The hidden world of geocaching in Marlborough”, in Marlborough Express (reproduced on Stuff), Blenheim, New Zealand: Stuff, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-16:",
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"text": "She might truly be said \"to muggle along;\" everything in her house was in the greatest state of confusion, and, it must be added, dirt.",
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"ref": "1889, [John Hutton Balfour Browne], “Popular”, in Times and Days: Being Essays in Romance and History, London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:",
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"ref": "2010 October, Paul Tremblay, “Tour: Slipshod Safari”, in We Will Never Live in the Castle, Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, published April 2013, →ISBN:",
"text": "[T]he tractor struggles and muggles through the overgrown tour path, the tall grass whispers on the bottom of our cage, [...]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along."
],
"links": [
[
"along",
"along#English"
],
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"work",
"work#Verb"
],
[
"unorganized",
"unorganized"
],
[
"unplanned",
"unplanned"
],
[
"muddle along",
"muddle along"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, UK, Ireland, dialectal) Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along."
],
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"UK",
"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌɡl̩/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌɡ(ə)l/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-muggle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/En-au-muggle.ogg/En-au-muggle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/En-au-muggle.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɡəl"
}
],
"word": "muggle"
}
Download raw JSONL data for muggle meaning in All languages combined (19.6kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: originally US",
"path": [
"muggle"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "muggle",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: geocaching, specifically",
"path": [
"muggle"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "muggle",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: geocaching, specifically",
"path": [
"muggle"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "muggle",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: transitive, geocaching",
"path": [
"muggle"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "muggle",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: transitive, geocaching",
"path": [
"muggle"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "muggle",
"trace": ""
}
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