발음 (4)
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/ˈmʌpɪt/
발음 참고
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈmʌpɛt/
발음 참고
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈmɐpət/
발음 참고
- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/ˈmʊpɪt/
발음 참고
- Northern-England
명사
An incompetent or foolish person.
용법- 영연방 용법
- Ireland
- 영국 용법
- 비하 표현
- 속어
- 예문
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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.
더 많은 예문 (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.'