mutton
IPA: mˈʌtʌn
noun
- The meat of sheep used as food.
- The meat of a sheep, goat, urial, or other caprine.
- (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.
- A surname.
adjective
- (Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.
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Examples of "mutton" in Sentences
- Mutton and fish are excellent.
- Noodles with mutton are delicious.
- It was later covered by The Mutton Birds.
- This breed is of the fat tailed mutton type.
- Dishes feature lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep.
- They are used for the production of mutton and wool.
- Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep.
- The usage is similar to the eating of lamb instead of mutton.
- Mutton was born in Lerryn, Cornwall and was the son of a carpenter.
- His daughter in law had cooked mutton by mistake, in the vessel of eating.