muggle

muggle · noun¹

Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.

muggle · noun, verb²

See Muggle. The verb sense (“to deface a geocache”) derives from the fact that people interfering with such items are assumed not to be geocachers: see the noun sense 1.2.1.

muggle · verb³

Origin unknown; attested in Berkshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, the West Country, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. The word is possibly a variant of muddle.

Muggle · noun⁴

From mug (“gullible or easily cheated person”) + -le (diminutive suffix), coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. She later said in a 2004 interview that the word was made to imply both "foolishness and loveability".

First known use, by meaning

• from mid 1920s Marijuana.
• from mid 1920s A marijuana cigarette; a joint.