About The Word Mutton
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Mutton
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What's The Definition Of Mutton?
[n] meat from a mature domestic sheep
[n] the square of a body of any size of type Synonyms | Synonyms for Mutton: em | mouton | mut Related Terms | Find terms related to Mutton: agneau | bellwether | breast of lamb | ewe | ewe lamb | gigot | jambe de mouton | jumbuck | lamb | lambkin | leg of lamb | leg of mutton | mouton | ram | saddle of mutton | sheep | teg | tup | wether | yeanling See Also | area unit | domestic sheep | meat | Ovis aries | square measure Mutton In Webster's Dictionary \Mut"ton\, n. [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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. [A translation of a phrase from
a farce by De Brueys, revenons [`a] 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.
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