I am looking for the German translation. Does anyone know this word?

Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen

In the german translations of Rowling´s books was no new word invented, simply the spelling was adapted

Is there a synonyme in English, or what does it means?

Muggle (or Muggel in German) is a word that was invented by Harry Potter author J K Rowling. It means somebody who is not a witch or a wizard. Other invented terms are squibs (offspring of a wizard family, who are, however, unable to do magic themselves), mudbloods (a politically incorrect term for those whose parents, or at least one of whose parents were Muggles), etc.

BBC - The Great War - Episode 09 - "Please God send us a victory"; UK,1964

"And this meant that the British New Army divisions could not advance either, even when they found out what to do and where to go. Muggle and mischance had prevailed again." (at about 32min)

The word definitely was not coined by J.K. Rowling. It is used about half a dozen times in this episode of 1964 British television.

Ich kenne das Wort "muggle" aus dem song When I wake up in the morning.... I put my muggle jeans on

GeNo in den GuLag, und zwar subito

Guest: Are you sure "muddle" was not meant there? From the context it makes much more sense.

I've come to think it's: I put my blue jeans on, I put my old blue jeans on.

Selkie: This must be a case for kissthisguy.com, or it is extreme mickey-taking. I would have thought it is "I pull my old blue jeans on", at least if GeNo and I have the same song in mind.

Dragon: I meant muddle in the BBC series. Can't say as I recall a song where a person puts on jeans of any kind, care to hum a few bars?

Ahem... die ursprüngliche Anfrage ist ca. dreieinhalb Jahre alt... mittlerweile weiß ja wohl jeder, was ein muggle/Muggel ist.

Yes tigger, but not everone knows: what kind of jeans, and was the word used by the BBC?

OK, Selkie, here goes (I warn you, I'm a terrible singer, and the lyrics are as I always understood them, so they may be incorrect):

When I wake up
In the mornin light
I pull on my jeans ans I feel all right
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on
tch tch
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on...

Probably at least 30 years old (the song, not the jeans), no idea who sung it. And which BBC series did you mean?

The song was sung by David Dundas some time in the 70s

And I still think he sings "I put my blue jeans on" and simply omits the t because he speaks a heavy accent (Cockney or the like).

OK, I googled for dundas "blue jeans" lyrics and found:

Jeans On lyrics


When I wake up in the mornin' light
I pull on my jeans and I feel all right
I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on (ch-ch)
I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on (ch-ch)



You are viewing lyrics of Jeans On by DAVID DUNDAS from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM



It's the weekend, and I know that you're free
So pull on your jeans and come on out with me
I need to have you near me, I need to feel you close to me (ch-ch)
I need to have you near me, I need to feel you close to me

You and me, we'll go motorbike ridin' in the sun and the wind and the rain
I got money in my pocket, got a tiger in my tank
And I'm king of the road again

I'll meet ya in the usual place
I don't need a thing, 'cept your pretty face
And I need to have you near me, I need to feel you close to me (ch-ch)
I need to have you near me, I need to feel you close to me (ch-ch)
I need to have you near me, I need to feel you close to me (ch-ch)

You and me, we'll go motorbike ridin' in the sun and the wind and the rain
I got money in my pocket, a tiger in my tank
And I'm king of the road again

When I wake up in the mornin' light
I pull on my jeans and I feel all right
I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on (ch-ch)
I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on (ch-ch)
I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on (ch-ch)

Also doch kein Cockney-Akzent, wieder etwas gelernt. Danke

Thank you for the serenade Dragon, still don't know the song though.

As to the BBC series, please see post 5 for more, if confusing, information.

Was immer es heißen, mag Jane K. Rowling kann nicht erfunden haben:
Also ich hab hier vor mir eine Platte von Louis Armstrong und Earl Hines liegen, ein Aufnahme vom 7. Dezember 1928 und der Titel lautet Muggles.

Also, wenn ich Muggle in meinen PONS IFinger eingebe, erhalte ich 2 Antworten:

1) jemand, der nicht zaubern kann

2) (unimaginative person) fantasieloser Mensch

Das Wort scheint es also tatsächlich schon vorher im Englischen gegeben zu haben und dass es im Deutschen nicht übersetzt wurde, zeugt wieder einmal von der Unzulänglichkeit von Übersetzungen.

Meine Antwort an Steffen habe ich im Anschluß an seinen wortgleichen Beitrag hier related discussion: Muggle gepostet.

Siehe Link

Hier ein schönes Beispiel von Alan Ginsberg.

IS ABOUT by Allen Ginsburg (1986)
Dylan is about the Individual against the whole creation
Beethoven is about one man's fist in the lightning clouds
The Pope is about abortion & the spirits of the dead...
Television is about people sitting in their living room looking at their things
America is about being a big Country full of Cowboys Indians Jews Negroes & Americans
Orientals Chicanos Factories skyscrapers Niagara Falls Steel Mills radios homeless Conservatives, don't forget
Russia is about Czars Stalin Poetry Secret Police Communism barefoot in the snow
But that's not really Russia it's a concept
A concept is about how to look at the earth from the moon without ever getting there. The moon is about love & Werewolves, also Poe
Poe is about looking at the moon from the sun
or else the graveyard
Everything is about something if you're a thin movie producer chain-smoking MUGGLES

Muggles hier im Sinne von Joints

Zitat von weiter oben:

" 2) (unimaginative person) fantasieloser Mensch

Das Wort scheint es also tatsächlich schon vorher im Englischen gegeben zu haben und dass es im Deutschen nicht übersetzt wurde, zeugt wieder einmal von der Unzulänglichkeit von Übersetzungen."

dann hätte leo aber auch eine übersetzung dafür haben sollen. sogar mehrere wie man hier sieht.

(unimaginative person) fantasieloser Mensch passt jedenfalls auf die Bedeutung bei Harry Potter. Darum wird sie das Wort wohl dafür verwendet haben.