Green’s Dictionary of Slang

thank you very much!

1869		letter in Glossop Record 5 June 3/3: l have to thank you muchly for your kind present of the new spelling book.
1880		Sporting Times 13 Mar. 4/1: Smoke.— Thanks, muchly. We have boned some.
1881		M.E. Braddon Asphodel I 33: Thank you muchly. And now my box?
1889		Cork Constitution 11 Nov. 6/3: [T]he Archbishop, who [...] said he was advised that he could not do anything, or in other words, ‘Thanks muchly. Mother says I mustn’t’.
1891		Cycling 11 Apr. 26/2: C. G.—Thanks muchly for the invite, but Cycling is, as its name implies, a wheel paper, and we cannot see our way to deal with theatrical matters .
1897		Music Hall & Theatre Review 30 July 14/4: ‘Ta ta, Yours muchly, Sir John’.
1901		Sthn Echo 12 Jan. 2/5: [I]f the Pompey lads / Can ‘down’ the Cits / No doubt the Saints will say / ‘Thanks, muchly!’.
1913		Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 7: Nut: There’s lots of pretty girls, of course, but... Flapper : Shouldn’t waste me time, if I was you. Nut : I’m not. Flapper : Thanks muchly.
1919		‘Bartimeus’ ‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 38: We won’t stop, ta fearfully all the same.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 253: Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
1926		letter in People 14 Feb. 2/4: chumps darling, Thanks muchly for the magazines, I’ve got bags now, so don’t send any more.
1928		Staffs. Sentinel 25 May 6/6: The bright young thing murmered ‘Ta muchly’.
1934		Lincs. Echo 3 Sept. 4/4: I do not like turbot [...] or people who say ‘Ta muchly’.
1955		Aberdeen Exp. 3 Feb. 4/4: Ta muchly, but a 5.0 a.m. start is just a trifle early.
1968		Oz 8 48/2: Ta muchly, people.
1970		W. Smith Gold Mine 32: He eased a five-Rand note out of his wallet and handed it to her. ‘Ta muchly.’ .
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1192: [...] C.20.
1998		Guardian 27 July 28/3: ‘Ta muchly’ – Frank Hayes.