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Muggins   Listen
noun
Muggins  n.  
1.
A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
2.
A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.





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"Muggins" Quotes from Famous Books



... and a bad bonnet, like Mrs. Platt, and have to go to all the funerals in town! How horrid! Oh, Scott, do be some other kind of a man. A minister's wife can't dance anything but the Virginia reel, nor play anything more than muggins. Why can't you be a dentist, if ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... canvases, and vowed I would smash my palette and easel. Sometimes I succeed a little better in my work, and then it will happen for half an hour that I am pleased, but pleased at what? pleased at drawing Mr. Muggins's head rather like Mr. Muggins. Why, a thousand fellows can do better, and when one day I reach my very best, yet thousands will be able to do better still. Ours is a trade for which nowadays there is no excuse unless one can be great in it: and I feel I have not the stuff for ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray


Words linked to "Muggins" :   fathead, bozo, wally, zany, goose, simple, goof, twat, ass, morosoph, putz, tomfool, meshuggener, saphead, foolish woman, goofball, sap, flibbertigibbet, jackass, clown, fucker


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