[Vocabulary] "muggles"

[Olympian]

Hello,

What is the meaning of "muggles" here?

How did Steve Jobs become a wizard among muggles?​

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It is seen here: Steve Jobs: American Genius - The Daily Beast

I checked in thefreedictionary.com and it gave the following meanings:

Muggle or muggles refer to a variety of different things:

• "Muggles" as a slang term for marijuana in the 1920s and 1930s, associated with the jazz scene
• "Muggles" (recording), a 1928 recording by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, derived from the above cannabis usage
• "Muggles", a character from Carol Kendall's first Minnipins novel The Gammage Cup (1959)
• "Muggle-Wumps", a family of monkeys in "The Twits", a novel by Roald Dahl first published in 1980
• "Muggles", a race in RAH (later retitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles), a 1984 book by Nancy Stouffer
• "Muggle", a person without magical abilities in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy books and films. Later adopted by various subcultures to identify those outside their group or lacking in a skill (this is the more common way of using the word muggle)
• "Mr. Muggles", the pet pomeranian of the Bennet family in the NBC drama, Heroes

Muggle: a marble, Muggles: a game of marbles; I played in the North East of England in 1938



Thank you

 

[5jj]

"Muggle", a person without magical abilities in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy books and films. Later adopted by various subcultures to identify those outside their group or lacking in a skill (this is the more common way of using the word muggle)

That fits.

 

[shroob]

Hello,

What is the meaning of "muggles" here?

How did Steve Jobs become a wizard among muggles?​

​

It is seen here: Steve Jobs: American Genius - The Daily Beast

I checked in thefreedictionary.com and it gave the following meanings:

Muggle or muggles refer to a variety of different things:

• "Muggle", a person without magical abilities in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy books and films. Later adopted by various subcultures to identify those outside their group or lacking in a skill (this is the more common way of using the word muggle)

Thank you

In this context, 'muggle', refers to a person without magical abilities in Harry Potter.

The quote is making reference to Steve Jobs being a person that stands out, is special, is vastly successful or how he is 'one out of many' (to quote the American motto) when compared to the average person.

 

[Olympian]

Thank you fivejedjon and shroob for your replies.