Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Mutcher
subs. (thieves’).—See quot.
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1862. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, iv. 282. They loiter about the streets and public-houses to steal from drunken persons, and are called ‘Bug-hunters’ and MUTCHERS.
