Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈmʌpɪt/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈmʌpɛt/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈmɐpət/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/ˈmʊpɪt/
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- Northern-England
Noun
An incompetent or foolish person.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
- Examples
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Sally is such a muppet, the way she always misses the train.
Some muppet has parked a car at the bus stop.
More examples (6)
You impudent muppet, diu lay! You may be able to hoodwink people over in the UK, but not those of us over here.
'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.'
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?
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.
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).
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.'