mutton
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n noun
the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English moton sheep < Old French < Celtic; compare MIr molt, Welsh mollt, Breton maout wether
1250–1300; Middle English moton sheep < Old French < Celtic; compare MIr molt, Welsh mollt, Breton maout wether
Related forms
mut·ton·y, adjective
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| —n | |
| 1. | the flesh of sheep, esp of mature sheep, used as food |
| 2. | mutton dressed as lamb an older woman dressed up to look young |
| 3. | printing another word for em Compare nut |
| [C13 moton sheep, from Old French, from Medieval Latin multō, of Celtic origin; the term was adopted in printing to distinguish the pronunciation of em quad from en quad] | |
| 'muttony | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
mutton
"flesh of sheep used as food," late 13c., from O.Fr. moton "ram, wether, sheep" (Fr. mouton), from M.L. multonem (8c.), probably from Gaulish *multo-s, acc. of *multo (cf. O.Ir. molt "wether," Mid-Breton mout, Welsh mollt). Transf. slang sense of "food for lust, loose women, prostitutes" (1510s) led
to extensive British slang uses down to the present day for woman variously regarded as seeking lovers or as lust objects.
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Example sentences
There was no order to cookbooks: a cake recipe might be followed by a mutton one.
In a bare and icy room the officers' wives served us tea mixed with salt, mutton fat, and camel's milk.
There is food: bubbling mutton kebabs seared over red-hot braziers.
We all know that these are now as dead as mutton, and as distasteful as stale mutton.
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