1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., iii. 203. He underwent the operation
of mugging him up with oil-color, paint, black, and not forgetting
the lips, red.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 193. He put on the
clown’s dress, got mugged up, and went into the ring.
1882. Chambers’s Journal, 19 Aug., p. 530. He drew a long breath
and repeated his ejaculation; ‘My eye! How you do mug up, Charley!
You might go through this town, ah! if you owed money in every
shop, and I don’t believe a soul would know you.’
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 59. You’re mugged up to rights.