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muggle
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2018-10-15 14:30:47 -04:00
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A non- wizard. Implies vague pity rather than contempt. In the universe
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of Rowling's popular children's series, muggles and wizards inhabit the
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same modern world, but each group is ignorant of the commonplaces of
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the others' existence most muggles are unaware that wizards exist,
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and wizards (used to magical ways of doing everything) are perplexed
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and fascinated by muggle artifacts. In retrospect it seems completely
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inevitable that hackers would adopt this metaphor, and in hacker
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usage it readily forms compounds such as muggle-friendly. Compare
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mundane, chainik, newbie, wannabe.
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