juggins, you

juggins, you
   ‘You juggins’ is used by a schoolmaster to a boy in The Sandcastle, by Iris Murdoch. The word has been in use in Britain since the end of the nineteenth century and means a fool. Eric Partridge thinks that it is a variant of ‘muggins’, according to his entry in A Dictionary of Historical Slang.

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