mucking-togs n.
a mackintosh.
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 155: A little ‘gallows-looking chap’ [...] With a ‘carpet-swab’ and ‘muckingtogs,’ and a hat turned up with green. | ‘Misadventures at Margate’ in||
Chelmsford Chron. 6 Oct. 8/2: Even the ‘merry andrews’ wore mackintoshes and other ‘mucking togs’. | ||
‘’Arry on St. Swithin’ in Punch 4 Aug. 49/1: The top-coats and muckingtogs, Charlie, the rugs and the hulsters with ’oods. | ||
(ref. to 1823) Western Dly Press 14 Sept. 4/4: Charles mackintosh invented the water-proof in 1823 [...] the wits christened it the ‘mucking-tog’. |