muggle
/ˈmʌɡ(ə)l
/noun informal
A person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill: she’s a muggle: no IT background, understanding, or aptitude at all...
- This is absolutely typical of the tourist authorities, who are behaving like a bunch of muggles.
- A neat spin on the driving test we muggles take as we ‘come of age’.
Origin
1990s: from mug1 + -le2; used in the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling to mean 'a person without magical powers'.
- filling
- filling station
- fillip
- fillis
- fillister
- fill light
- Fillmore, Millard
- fill one's boots
- fill out
- fill someone in
- fill someone's shoes (or boots)
- fill something in
- fill something out
- fill the bill
- fill-up
- filly
- film
- film archive
- film award
- film badge
- film buff
- film camera
- film club
- film critic
- film criticism