In doing this he angers the Enormous Crocodile into wanting to eat more children, only to be thwarted by the Roly-Poly Bird (another recurring character in Dahl's books) and Trunky the Elephant.
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The Muggle-Wump in this story has a wife and children and is subject to animal cruelty at the hands of Mr and Mrs Twit, who are retired circus trainers.
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The Muggle-Wump of The Enormous Crocodile, after reasoning with the wily reptile that it is wrong to eat little children, loses his temper and, very nearly, his life, when the Crocodile bites into his tree to catch him.
Muggle was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003, where it is said to refer to a person who is lacking a skill.
In the Polish translation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, those wizards who hunt Muggle-born wizards or mudblood-friendly wizards (the snatchers) are called szmalcownicy.