muggins

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   chiefly British, informal and insulting: a foolish or easily deceived person

   Only a muggins would pay twice for the same worthless ticket.

2. 2
   noun

   chiefly British, humorous: oneself when feeling unfairly burdened, as in muggins here

   Everyone left early, so muggins here had to clean the room.

British slang from the eighteenth century, probably based on mug in its sense 'fool' and shaped like a surname. The humorous self-reference muggins here presents the speaker as the predictable fool left with an unpleasant task.

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