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Mugger vs Pugger - What's the difference?

mugger | pugger |

As nouns the difference between mugger and pugger

is that mugger is a street robber while pugger is a worker in a pugmill.

As a verb pugger is

pucker.

mugger

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A street robber.
  • A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

    • pugger

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) pucker
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:
    • "Nor are we to cavil at the red pugger'd attire of the Turkey "

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A worker in a pugmill.