{"id":18811,"date":"2026-07-13T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18811"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:06:09","slug":"muggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/07\/13\/muggins\/","title":{"rendered":"muggins"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An Oxford Languages dictionary says:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>muggins: (INFORMAL\u2022BRITISH) a foolish and gullible person (often used humorously to refer to oneself).<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I heard it used in the form of a convention panelist saying something like \u201cmuggins over here\u201d to refer to themselves, indicating that they had done something that they later realized was foolish.<\/p>\r\n<p>My dictionary (Merriam-Webster) adds that the word can also mean \u201ca provision in many games played in England that if a player fails to record an earned score promptly his opponent may say <i>muggins<\/i> and claim that score\u2014used especially in cribbage and dominoes,\u201d or \u201cany of various card games in which a score overlooked may be claimed by saying <i>muggins<\/i> or in which the player with the worst score is called <i>muggins<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18812,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18811\/revisions\/18812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}