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See also: Muppet
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Muppet, from the Muppets franchise
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmʌpɪt/, /ˈmʌpɛt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmʌpət/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʌpɪt
Noun
[edit]muppet (plural muppets)
- Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person.
- Sally is such a muppet, the way she always misses the train.
- Some muppets parked a car at the bus stop.
- 2011, Ruth Saberton, Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- 'Honestly, Ellie, I don't know why you bother.' 'Err, because I need to squeeze my size twelve self into a size eight wedding dress?' She rolls her eyes. 'You're such a muppet. Why didn't you just buy a bigger size? Dieting is pointless.'
- 2011, Penny Smith, Summer Holiday, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:
- There was a silence while Miranda tried to form a sentence that wouldn't antagonise her friend. Or was she a friend? Would a proper friend have set her up with such a – such a muppet?
- 2012, Diane Perry, Red Kite, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 29:
- The truth was I'd love to be in the school team but I wouldn't get picked anyway: most of the kids think I'm a real muppet, a gormo who's into bird-watching and if I tried to join in, they would just rib me, so I don't bother to show any interest.
- 2012, Jane Reynolds, Just Good Friends?, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
- Scrappy set off to run out through the dog flap, but Katie caught hold of him (as he was such a muppet he'd be in danger – as usual – of ending up under the wheels of whoever's Chelsea tractor was scrunching its way up the gravel driveway).
- 2020, Dan Brotzel, Hotel du Jack: And Other Stories, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN:
- Anyway here was a message now, from 'Geordie', sent to Jack and cc-ed to the rest of his male colleagues. Subject line: 'You've been replaced with a real muppet.'
Translations
[edit]incompetent or foolish person
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