muggins

Other forms of muggins

plural

mugginses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about muggins

What does muggins mean?

muggins means "a person who lacks good judgment".

How many syllables are in muggins?

muggins has 2 syllables: mug-gins. The stress falls on "mug".

What is another word for muggins?

Close synonyms include fool, sap, saphead, tomfool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muggins a common word?

muggins is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.