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fraggle
noun- in prison, a mentally ill inmate UK
A Fraggle is a television puppet character from Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock, 1983–87; this excerpt from the theme lyric may well explain the derivation: “Dance your cares away, / Worry’s for another day [...] Let the Fraggles play”. Jim Henson also created The Muppets which also serve as models for the slow-witted. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 53, 1996
- [S]houting out of their cell windows, cursing the disturbed man. “Shut the fuck up, you fraggle.” “Quiet, you nutter.” — Erwin James, The Guardian, 31 August 2000: “A life lnside”
- (among Canadian Forces personnel) an avionics technician CANADA
- A “fraggle” is an avionics technician. The term is borrowed from the CBC television series of the 1980s, Fraggle Rock. Fraggles were creatures of uncommon idleness, who lived in their own, most unusual world. — Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing, p. 112, 1995
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