muggle

A non- wizard. Not as disparaging as luser ; implies vague pity rather than
contempt. In the universe of Rowling's popular children's series, muggles
and wizards inhabit the same modern world, but each group is ignorant of
the commonplaces of the others' existence most muggles are unaware that
wizards exist, and wizards (used to magical ways of doing everything) are
perplexed and fascinated by muggle artifacts. In retrospect it seems
completely inevitable that hackers would adopt this metaphor, and in hacker
usage it readily forms compounds such as muggle-friendly. Compare luser,
mundane, chainik, newbie.
