Mutton

Word MUTTON
Character 6
Hyphenation mut ton
Pronunciations /ˈmʌtn̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Mutton"

What do we mean by mutton?

The flesh of fully grown sheep. noun

A sheep. noun

The flesh of sheep, raw or dressed for food. noun

A loose woman; a prostitute. noun

An Anglo-French gold coin: so called from its being impressed with the image of a lamb. See mouton and agnel. noun

A sheep. noun

The flesh of a sheep. noun

A loose woman; a prostitute. noun

The Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus). noun

A rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. noun

The American eelpout. See Eelpout. noun

A big brawny fist or hand. noun

A pimp. noun

To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. noun

The flesh of sheep used as food. noun

Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use. noun

Deaf. adjective

Meat from a mature domestic sheep noun

The flesh of sheep used as food.

The flesh of goat used as food.

A sheep.

Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

A prostitute.

An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mutton

The word "mutton" in example sentences

The term mutton is usually applied to the flesh of a sheep that is 1 year or more old, while lamb is the flesh of sheep under 1 year of age. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Soon a Troll insider (believed to be a tapeworm) was blabbing to one of Potya's notorious "purple-topped" tabloids that the forward from the land where mutton is king had been sucking up so much helium, "sometimes we have to fetch him down from the ceiling using a boat hook". ❋ Harry Pearson (2010)

"We rode out from gay Mana and continued the gay progress — down the lava trails to Kiholo to the swimming and the fishing and the feasting and the sleeping in the warm sand under the palms; and up to Puuwaawaa, and more pig-sticking, and roping and driving, and wild mutton from the upper pasture-lands; and on through Kona, now mauka" ❋ Unknown (2010)

She didn't trust the butcher, either, but for different reasons: suspicion that he called mutton lamb, that he put grain in his sausages when he swore he didn't, that his scales worked in his favor. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2002)

We rode out from gay Mana and continued the gay progress — down the lava trails to Kiholo to the swimming and the fishing and the feasting and the sleeping in the warm sand under the palms; and up to Puuwaawaa, and more pig-sticking, and roping and driving, and wild mutton from the upper pasture-lands; and on through Kona, now mauka ❋ Unknown (1993)

We rode out from gay Mana and continued the gay progressdown the lava trails to Kiholo to the swimming and the fishing and the feasting and the sleeping in the warm sand under the palms; and up to Puuwaawaa, and more pig-sticking, and roping and driving, and wild mutton from the upper pasture-lands; and on through Kona, now mauka ❋ Unknown (1919)

Their mutton was a little cheaper than the mutton from the Colonies. ❋ Unknown (1907)

She has mutton from the Mongolian sheep (the finest I have ever eaten), beef, pork or lamb; chicken, goose or duck; hare, pheasant or deer, or fish of whatever kind she may choose. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Mr. Underhill's fresh mutton is on the other side of the river. ❋ Unknown (1856)

I was rendered so weak by want of proper nourishment that my dear husband, for my sake, overcame his aversion to borrowing, and procured a quarter of mutton from a friend. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Who that remembers the neatly trimmed mutton-chop of an English inn, or the artistic little circle of lamb-chop fried in bread-crumbs coiled around a tempting centre of spinach which may always be found in France, can recognize any family resemblance to those dapper, civilized preparations, in these coarse, roughly-hacked strips of bone, gristle, and meat which are commonly called mutton-chop in America? ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

Even better, though, is his saddle chop, which at Keens is called a mutton chop. ❋ By SAM SIFTON (2011)

Why on Earth then would the order listen to those they refer to as mutton and animals then? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Later the same superfluity of meat -- in this case, "mutton" -- recurred and became general when wool-growing and the manufacture of woollen goods developed into important industries. ❋ Unknown (1888)

In Jamaica, a vibrant, aromatic curry would contain mutton or goat, but it’s a perfect dish for venison, too — especially the meat from an older, more strongly flavored animal that could benefit from slow tenderizing and a powerful, exotic blast of flavor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* For those who haven’t read the wonderful and highly-recommended book by Newman & Mittelmark (I’d put a link to The Book Depository here, but they’re down for maintenance at the moment), the frozen leg of mutton is a metaphor for something that’s mentioned in a novel but turns out to be completely irrelevant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like a nice MLT, Mutton Lettuce and Tomato, when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe ... they’re so perky, I love that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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