mugger noun an itinerant dealer or Tinker specializing in earthenware: Describing the Yetholm Gypsies one writer says: ‘Nearly the whole of them are muggers wandering dealers in Earthenware ...’19-20, 21- historical. [Scots; collected by David Macritchie in Scottish Gypsies under the Stewarts (1894); several examples in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language. |