1743 Heddon-on-the-Wall Parish Reg. William, son to Michell the Mogger, bp. 23 March.

1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 238 The ware of Cooper Climent was rejected in horror, much to the benefit of his rivals the muggers, who dealt in earthenware.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lix. 340 A nimble-handed mugger or tramp might have carried off whatever he liked.

1884 Manch. Examiner 1 Sept. 5/1 Alnwick is a great resort of..‘muggers’,..tramps who travel round the district to sell earthenware.

1920 Kelso Chron. 23 July 2 There was a very large gathering of the tented ‘mugger’ tribe at St Boswells Fair.

1947 W. L. Ferguson Makar's Medley 60 She cleared the lum shelf at yae loup O' cheeny dugs and mugger ware.

1966 W. Merrilees Short Arm of Law 163 In the vicinity there were hutments..and encampments of muggers or tinkers.

2006 J. Uglow Nature's Engraver 333 For years this fell had been common land, where the tinkers and gypsy ‘muggers’..kept their donkeys.

1821 P. Egan Boxiana III. 87 Oliver put in a mugger that made Donnelly stagger a little.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 404 Youna got a mugger that gave his upper-works a sort of electrical movement.

a1892 Ld. Tennyson Devil & Lady (1930) iii. i. 55 For every mugger thou shalt give me, I'll lend thee ten and ten and ten to that.

1865 J. H. Browne Four Years in Secessia xlv. 340 The Muggers, like most bullies and ruffians, manifested a fine discrimination respecting the party they attacked, selecting those they thought they could rob with little resistance and entire impunity.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 220 Maceman, or macer, a welcher, magsman, or general swindler; a ‘street-mugger’.

1942 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 17/1 The police were..tracking down three known..muggers who..had received suspended sentences in a mugging case.

1955 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Jan. 2/4 Corporal-——..of Cleveland reported to police early today that he had been attacked by two muggers while walking near the Pennsylvania Station.

1965 P. G. Wodehouse Galahad at Blandings i. 11 Muggers, stick-up men and hoodlums in general he disliked.

1990 Holiday Which? Mar. 75/1 Don't use the subway after midnight. Many New Yorkers carry a $20 mugger's fee. It may be wise to do the same.

1892 National Observer 27 Feb. 379/1 None had ever a more expressive viznomy than this prince of ‘muggers’.

1957 J. Lake & H. Giblo Footlights, Fistfights & Femmes 73 I joined up with Adam Sorge, a German boy who was a terrific mugger. You always could get more laughs with mugs than with lines if you had the proper mug to mug with.

a1625 W. Finch in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. iv. 436 Innumerable Alagaters or Crocodiles, there called Murgurmach.]

1844 J. E. Gray Catal. Tortoises Brit. Mus. 62 The Muggar or Goa. Crocodilus palustris.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. ii. 54 Of the short nosed, or mugger kind.

1895 India, Burma & Ceylon 68 Muggers or man-eating alligators.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 287/1 The long-nosed mugger is supposed to be a fish-eater.

1974 Country Life 31 Oct. 1302/1 A muggar, the marsh-loving crocodile, lay motionless on the bank.

1993 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 89 312 In the Chambal river the basking sites of mugger (77.7%) were rock and for gharial (22.2%) sand banks, though their nesting sites were the same.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 266 He loves a good bath like nothing else,..so he rushes in without even looking around. But we small people, we have to look for maggars.

1883 J. Payn Canon's Ward viii ‘A mugger’—a comprehensive term understood to include all persons with an ambition for University distinction.

1900 H. G. Wells Love & Mr. Lewisham viii. 77 That beast Lewisham—awful swat... Frightful mugger.

1941 C. F. Kirkus Let's go Climbing! v. 68 For the inner part of the sole muggers, rough wrought iron hobnails, are excellent.

1970 A. Blackshaw Mountaineering (rev. ed.) iii. 99 Soft iron nails which grip as a result of the rock biting into them (muggers and clinkers).

1992 W. Unsworth Encycl. Mountaineering (ed. 2) 236 Hobs gave way to muggers, which were of soft iron like the hobs and allowed the rock to bite into them.

1945 ‘N. Shute’ Most Secret vii. 150 What do you think we stopped to pick the mugger up for?

1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ix. 229 The pilot said, ‘I don't give a mugger about that, sir. It's plain bloody nonsense.’

1954 ‘G. Carr’ Death under Snowdon v. 54 Privileges are for the man who works for 'em, not for the mugger who plants his bottom on 'em because his father owned land.

1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 69 ‘Well, I'm muggered,’ I said in wonder.

2000 Re: in the Beginning in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Sept. Well I'll be muggered..someone likes this N[ews] G[roup].

1962 J. P. Carstairs Pardon my Gun i. 10 She's muggered off... Hopped it to Italy.

2000 Re: How to join the Weyrmount! in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Mar. I've muggered up a few large unzipped packages because they didn't unzip to subdirectories.