Muggins

When your BFF calls you a cotton headed ninny muggins on FB, resist the urge to smack back. Step away from your mobile device and take 5 deep breaths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was told afterwards he'd been trying to sell the place for months, but all the locals found out they would be buying trouble and left it alone for some muggins like me straight out of the army and still wet behind the ears to come along and jump in with my big feet. ❋ Francis, Dick (1962)

Taking pictures of you and all your fancy clothes, parties, and people won't make you happy. Well, it might for the moment but it won't last. Your friends like you because of who you are, not what you have. If they don't they aren't good friends anyway. Plus it makes you look like a cotton headed ninny muggins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss. of 500 different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day--and no man ever has tried to scribble about it yet. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

"We found Little Blue Flower a sweet little muggins," Beverly told the Indian early in our stay at the fort. "We like good Indians like her. She's one clipper." ❋ Margaret Hill McCarter (1899)

Why are the conservative defending this cotton headed ninny muggins? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss of 500 different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day—& no man has ever tried to scribble about it yet. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that?" ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)

He was a considerable muggins, and a great coward, in fact, a Yankee deserter. ❋ Sam R. Watkins (N/A)

Mr. Verne also being seated the time honored game of muggins was soon in active operation and, as is often the cape, the lady being the best player was sadly worsted but submitted with a grace that was amusing. ❋ Rebecca Agatha Armour (N/A)

When another friend was criticizing Mr. Roosevelt for the reputed slaughter of so many animals in Africa, and Mr. Burroughs declared he did not credit half the things the papers said the hunter was doing, Mr. Muir said, half chidingly, half tolerantly, “Roosevelt, the muggins, I am afraid he is having a good time putting bullets through those friends of his.” ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)

Later I heard him apply it to a Yosemite waterfall, and by then should not have been surprised to hear him speak of a mighty glacier, or a giant sequoia, as a “muggins.” ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)

A minister's wife can't dance anything but the Virginia reel, nor play anything more than muggins. ❋ Anna Chapin Ray (1905)

Mrs Sophy, my dear, ha'e ye e'er suppit muggins in May? ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Whoever instigated this disaster should be made to pay for it, but, as usual, it's the innocent muggins who are left to pick up the bill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ok, those are most definitely problems. muggins wrote: I can confirm the problem. ❋ HGN (2010)

'MOD_MESSAGE' = > $post_data [ 'mod_message'], muggins wrote: Maybe I did something wrong, but there's no change after your edits. ❋ HGN (2010)

Hypothetical question: If I was to order something from ... say ... the US, and it was 'slightly naughty' and thus verboten in the UK (not guns or drugs or anything too serious - let's call it an electrical item), and it got pinged by HMRC; would it simply be confiscated or would muggins receive a knock on the door and twelve years in a gulag? ❋ Unknown (2010)

1) ... and muggins here just handed it over! [Good grief]. I thought everyone had heard of 'The Wallet Inspector'. 2) I [doan] like all deez [muggin's]. ❋ Hurst (2005)

me: [oi]! muggins!muggins: [stop] calling me that! ❋ A D (2007)

I [call] [Muggins] on that 3-4-8. ❋ Cribbage Guy (2004)

(sarcastic [tone])..."Don't worry, you just [sit there] and muggins will [get it] for you." ❋ Jackie Walker (2005)

if a clumsy person like [santiago] drops [a mug] u say ' [pick it up], muggins ❋ Daniel.C (2008)

[what a] muggins, [allright] muggins ❋ Joe (2005)

I wanted to play [a joke] on Tim so I [wrote] muggins on his [shopping list]. ❋ RackEmWillie (2009)

"[Muggins] the [front seat]!" ❋ SuperMuggins (2006)

Yo, [that chick] was [straight] [muggin]. ❋ Eric (2004)

[stop] f*ckin [muggin] [b*tch] ❋ Dmou. (2008)