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MUTTON
mouton, mutton
(noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)
The flesh of sheep used as food.
The flesh of goat used as food.
(archaic) A sheep.
(typography slang) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
(obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
(historical) An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
Synonyms
• (meat of a sheep): sheepflesh, sheepmeat
Hyponyms
• (meat of a sheep): lamb
Adjective
mutton (not comparable)
(Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.
Synonyms
• Mutton Jeff
Source: Wiktionary
Mut"ton, n. Etym: [OE. motoun, OF. moton, molton, a sheep, wether, F. mouton, LL. multo, by transposition of l fr. L. mutilus mutilated. See Mutilate.]
1. A sheep. [Obs.] Chapman. Not so much ground as will feed a mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam.
2. The flesh of a sheep. The fat of roasted mutton or beef. Swift.
3. A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Mutton bird (Zoöl.), the Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus).
– Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off.
– Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout.
– Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden.
– Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman.
– To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous] I willingly return to my muttons. H. R. Haweis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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