英和和英

名詞

muggins (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mugginses)

1. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).

   I suppose muggins here will have to do all the work, as usual.

   • 2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6:

     "And I thought: if muggins here, a 37-year-old government minister who can look after myself, feels that way, then we need to really think about how we're putting in place a level of protection for women.

2. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mispegged or counted up incorrectly.
3. (uncountable) A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
4. (uncountable) A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.

関連する語

• mugginsed

参考

• cutthroat
• cutthroat cribbage

参照

• https://web.archive.org/web/20150118161116/http://www.cribbage.org/rules/rule1.asp
• http://www.pagat.com/adders/crib6.html#scoring%20during%20the%20play
• “muggins”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.