mugger vs yegg

mugger

noun
  • A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place. 

  • A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. 

  • A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. 

yegg

noun
  • A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. 

verb
  • To rob. 

How often have the words mugger and yegg occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )