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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>muggle</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mudhead.html" title="mudhead"/><link rel="next" href="Multics.html" title="Multics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">muggle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mudhead.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Multics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="muggle"/><dt xmlns="" id="muggle"><b>muggle</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from J.K. Rowling's <i class="citetitle">Harry Potter</i> books,
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1998] A non-<a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>. Not as disparaging as
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<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>; implies vague pity rather than contempt. In
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the universe of Rowling's enormously (and deservedly) popular children's
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series, muggles and wizards inhabit the same modern world, but each group
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is ignorant of the commonplaces of the others' existence — most
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muggles are unaware that wizards exist, and wizards (used to magical ways
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of doing everything) are perplexed and fascinated by muggle
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artifacts.</p><p>In retrospect it seems completely inevitable that hackers would adopt
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this metaphor, and in hacker usage it readily forms compounds such as
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<span class="firstterm">muggle-friendly</span>. Compare
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<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>, <a href="mundane.html"><i class="glossterm">mundane</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/chainik.html"><i class="glossterm">chainik</i></a>, <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mudhead.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Multics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mudhead </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Multics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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