muggles

Ordinary people, subcultural slang

Muggles are people without magical abilities, from the Harry Potter series.

The term has spread beyond the books to describe anyone outside a particular group or unfamiliar with specialized knowledge: The technical jargon went right over the muggles' heads.

In geocaching, muggles are non-players who might stumble upon hidden caches.

ordinary

nonmagical

Lacking supernatural qualities

typical · mundane · unremarkable · average · plain · conventional · regular · standard · mainstream · unexceptional

oblivious

unaware

Lacking knowledge of something

unseeing · blind · ignorant · unsuspecting · innocent · naïve · uninitiated · hidden world · secret · concealed

nonmagical

Dursley

Kowalski · mundane · pureblood

outsider

uninitiated

Lacking specialized knowledge

them · unfamiliar · foreign · alien · separate · apart · different · unknowing · civilian · layperson

Opposites
magical ability (Harry Potter universe)

muggleswizards

Practitioners of sorcery

witches · magical beings · sorcerers · magic users · warlocks

insider/outsider status in specialized communities

mugglespractitioners

People who perform a discipline

insiders · enthusiasts · initiates · experts · aficionados

geocaching terminology

mugglesgeocachers

People seeking hidden containers

cachers

Family

muggle

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G