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muppet
noun- a person who is mentally or physically incapacitated or disabled, or considered ugly; someone who represents any permutation of such characteristics; hence, any fool UK
Created by Jim Henson (1936–1990), The Muppet Show, a successful television programme of the 1970s and subsequently in films, introduced the gallery of grotesque puppets on which this allusion is founded. - — Mike Leigh, Meantime, 1983
- We know it ain’t you Gumbo, you muppet. — ID, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 78, 1996
- “You sure you want to do this?” “You fuckin’ muppet, you’ve spent the last ‘alf hour talking me into it.” — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 206, 1997
- What are you two muppets doing with all these pills? — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & a Fist Full of Jack and Jills, p. 154, 2000
- Baresi’s is a fucking muppet. — John King, Human Punk, p. 254, 2000
- Steven watched the office muppets steaming over Blackfriar’s Bridge like worker ants and shook his head. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 135, 2001
- a magistrate UK
Police slang. - You’d think every Muppet would have the Good Book by his bedside. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 108, 2002
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