1883. Daily Telegraph, 2 July, p. 5, col. 3. Anglo-Indian manuals
of domestic economy give the formulas for such beverages as ...
cool tankard, or mug, into the composition of which beer as well as
wine or spirits enters.
Verb. (common).—1. To strike (or catch it) in the face.
1821. The Fancy, i. p. 261. Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a
corner, but got well mugg’d.
1857. Ducange Anglicus, Vulg. Tongue, ‘The Leary Man.’ And if you
come to fibbery You must mug one or two.
1866. London Miscellany, 5 May, p. 102. ‘Suppose they had mugged
you?’ ‘Done what to me?’ ‘Mugged you. Slogged you, you know.’