muttonn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌtn/, U.S.

/ˈmətn/

Forms: Middle English moltoun, Middle English motene, Middle English motone, Middle English motoun, Middle English motun, Middle English motune, Middle English mutoun, Middle English–1500s moton, Middle English–1500s motonne, Middle English–1500s motton, Middle English–1500s mouton, Middle English–1600s moten, Middle English–1600s multon, Middle English–1600s muton, Middle English– mutton, 1500s mowton, 1500s muttoun, 1500s–1600s motten, 1500s–1600s mutten, 1800s mothon (Irish English), 1800s mothoon (Irish English), 1800s muthon (Irish English); Scottish pre-1700 motone, pre-1700 motoun, pre-1700 motton, pre-1700 mottoun, pre-1700 mottoune, pre-1700 moutoun, pre-1700 mowtoun, pre-1700 mowtoune, pre-1700 mowttone, pre-1700 mowtyne, pre-1700 multoun, pre-1700 muton, pre-1700 mutone, pre-1700 mutoun, pre-1700 mutoune, pre-1700 mutown, pre-1700 muttone, pre-1700 muttoun, pre-1700 muttoune, pre-1700 muttownn, pre-1700 muttun, pre-1700 muttwn, pre-1700 mwtoun, pre-1700 mwttone, pre-1700 mwttoun, pre-1700 mwtun, pre-1700 1700s– mutton.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mutun, mouton.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mutun, multun, moton, motoun, motun, mouton, etc., and Old French, Middle French mouton, muton, etc. (French mouton) ram (early 12th cent. in form multum), ram raised for slaughter (mid 12th cent. in form mutun), wether, sheep of either sex (later 12th cent.), meat of a sheep (early 13th cent.) < post-classical Latin multo wether, ram, sheep (from 8th cent. in British and continental sources; also in forms molto (early 10th cent.), mutto (early 12th cent.), muto (early 13th cent.)), probably < a Gaulish word related to Early Irish molt ram, wether, Welsh mollt wether, Cornish mols wether, sheep, Breton maout sheep, mutton, ram. Compare Old Occitan molton, mouto (late 12th cent.), Catalan moltò (907 as †moltone), Italian montone ram (a1292), Italian regional (Venice) moltone ram.Apparently attested earlier in surnames, from the beginning of the 13th cent., as Walterus Mutun (c1200), Robertus Mutun (1242–3), Willelmus Mutun (1285). In its earliest attestations post-classical Latin multo appears to denote a male sheep indiscriminately, whether ram or wether, although examples of the latter predominate owing to the greater numbers and economic importance of the castrated animal. The Latin word and subsequently the Anglo-Norman and Old French words came to denote both ‘ram’ and ‘sheep’, replacing both classical Latin ovis ewe, sheep, and classical Latin vervex wether (although the latter was used in Gallo-Romance to denote sheep from the 5th cent. until its eventual specialization in meaning to ‘ewe’: > French brebis ). An earlier etymology which derived post-classical Latin multo by metathesis from classical Latin mutilus in the sense ‘deprived of horns’ or ‘castrated’ (see mutilate v.) is now generally rejected, as it is unlikely that the Celtic forms are connected with the post-classical Latin word.

a. The flesh of sheep, used as food. Cf. lamb n.¹ 5a.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun]

muttonc1300

sheep-meat1975

c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 344 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 472 (MED) Huy nomen with heom in heore schip..Gies and hennes..porc, motoun, and beof.

c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 72 (MED) Stwed Mutton: Take faire Mutton that hath ben roste..and mynce it faire.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 46 (MED) Take fresshe brothe of motene clene.

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 152 Mustard is meete for brawne, beef, or powdred motoun.

c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 461 Sancte Iulyane..In til his tyme wes na glotone, na wont wes nocht to ete motone.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xv. f. lix^v Men bye byefe or moten out of y^e bouchers shoppes.

a1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Posies 147 Fiue flocks of sheepe coulde scarce mainteine good mutton for his house.

1609 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 166 Ane jeikat of muttoun.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 50 Of Mutton..that is the best, which is of an yeere or two olde.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 19 Mar. (1948) I. 219 They..had a breast of mutton and a pint of wine.

1747 G. Underwood Let. 13 July in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 159 The provisions..were a Loin, a Rib, two Rumps and..two legs of Mutton.

1784 E. Allen Reason iii. §4. 137 To reward moral actions with a glass of wine or a shoulder of mutton, would be as inadequate, as to measure a triangle with sound.

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich v. 35 Racing home for the eight o'clock mutton.

1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce i. v. 49 Welsh sheep are small, but the mutton is renowned for the delicacy of its flavour.

1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents x The steaming dish of mutton and vegetables.

1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room iii. 53 She directed the maid to give Mr. Flanders a second helping of mutton.

1980 G. Lord Fortress viii. 69 The mutton was cooked brown and stringy.

b. The flesh of goats, used as food. Also goat mutton. Chiefly Australian and South Asian.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun]

ass flesha1398

goat's meat1593

dog's meat1655

mutton1711

dog meat1805

1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 151 Goat Mutton..4 [i.e.per Catty].

1830 R. Sharp Diary 22 Apr. (1997) 256 We had Goat mutton in the town last week!!!

1897 J. J. Murif From Ocean to Ocean 57 No sheep beyond Oodnadatta either... The goat's flesh is called ‘mutton’.

1930 D. Cottrell Earth Battle 125 She put..the damper and cold goat mutton on a newspaper.

1988 S. Rushdie Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery iii. 50 In subcontinental English, ‘mutton’ is the name for the meat of both goat and kid... Our mutton, or goat's meat, is leaner, more tender and delicatedly flavoured then lamb.

1999 Kathmandu Post (Electronic ed.) 15 Oct. The annual festival is the time when many families ensure steady supply of meat with a purchase of a goat. Mutton varieties are the most popular item in the Nepali menu during Dashain.

a. A sheep, esp. one intended to be eaten. Chiefly New Zealand or humorous in later use.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > humorous names for

mutton?c1335

lion of Cotswold1546

Cotswold lion1548

Lammermoor lion1721

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > sheep for slaughter

mutton?c1335

ration sheep1872

freezer1889

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 135 (MED) Þat on him send gees and henne, Þat oþer geet and motune.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1060 The Wolf in pes with the Moltoun.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 174 A bouke of a motoun.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clvii. 231 Oxen, Kyen, Motons and other vytaylles.

1565 Lady Lovat in J. Fraser Polichron. (1905) 153 With twa mutowns yearly price of the pice thratin s. iiij d.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 37 Moldavia and Valachia do serve them with beeves and muttons.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccclxxxv. 461 The Sheep in this Fable was clearly too hard for the Two Doctors; and we find all those Reasonings to be true in the World, which the Mutton Alleges in the Fiction.

1749 E. Synge Let. 26 Sept. (1996) 172 Don't order a Mutton to be kill'd. I have but a few.

1795 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 81 A mutton, statelier than the rest, A ram, the ewes and wethers, sad, address'd.

1839 W. M. Thackeray Legend St. Sophia of Kioff A humble company of pious men, Like muttons in a pen.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 7 How long, now, would the roughest marketman..Harass a mutton ere she made a mouth Or menaced biting?

1956 J. Dare Rouseabout Jane 171 It was not long before I was promoted to killing three muttons each week.

1988 ‘C. Gidley’ Armada (BNC) 46 Leonora had had a mutton killed in anticipation of a family celebration.

b. The carcass of a sheep; (Scottish) †such carcasses collectively (obsolete). Now New Zealand.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > carcass

scalding1302

muttona1425

a1425 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 40 (MED) Vetalls þe same day..Halfe a oxe..A swane..xvj plovers, a moton.

1444 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 11 That na fleshowar..tak oute of onye mutone the neris..under payne of eschete of the mutoune to the balyhes.

1531 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 107/1 Twa martis and tuu mottonis.

1551 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 161 That na maner of flescheouris..cut nor slit ony mwtun.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 622 In many places they salt their Muttens when they are killed, and so eat them out of the pickle.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 108 in Wks. II Goes to the Butchers, fetches in a muton.

1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 108 I was presented with half a Mutton.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 8 The carcases of..80 beeves, 600 bacons, and 600 muttons.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 189 There were butchers' shops..presenting no such generously fattened carcases as Englishmen love to gaze at in the market, no stupendous halves of mighty beeves, no dead hogs or muttons.

1890 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 23 Jan. 43 The favourite morsel of the unhappy mutton which attracts the kea [sc. a mountain parrot]..is the fat on the kidneys.

1988 Univ. Entrance Board Bursaries Exam. Eng. 6 He gave her a mutton once or twice a year for looking after me.

†c. spec. A castrated ram; a wether. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > castrated or wether

wetherc890

wether sheep13..

muttonc1450

stag1784

hamel1835

wedder1866

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 597/10 Multo, a wether, or a moton.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem ii. 135 Ane man taken with reid hand, with ane sheip, or muton, or with ane calfe,..sould not be put to death, bot suld be scurged.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 64 Ewes and Rams are subject to far more maladies than Muttons.

†3. Chiefly Scottish (depreciative). A man, a fellow. Obsolete.

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the world > people > person > man > [noun]

churla800

werec900

rinkeOE

wapmanc950

heOE

wyeOE

gomeOE

ledeOE

seggeOE

shalkOE

manOE

carmanlOE

mother bairnc1225

hemea1250

mother sona1250

hind1297

buck1303

mister mana1325

piecec1325

groomc1330

man of mouldc1330

hathela1350

sire1362

malea1382

fellowa1393

guestc1394

sergeant?a1400

tailarda1400

tulka1400

harlotc1405

mother's sona1470

frekea1475

her1488

masculinea1500

gentlemana1513

horse?a1513

mutton?a1513

merchant1549

child1551

dick1553

sorrya1555

knavea1556

dandiprat1556

cove1567

rat1571

manling1573

bird1575

stone-horse1580

loona1586

shaver1592

slave1592

copemate1593

tit1594

dog1597

hima1599

prick1598

dingle-dangle1605

jade1608

dildoa1616

Roger1631

Johnny1648

boy1651

cod1653

cully1676

son of a bitch1697

cull1698

feller1699

chap1704

buff1708

son of a gun1708

buffer1749

codger1750

Mr1753

he-man1758

fella1778

gilla1790

gloak1795

joker1811

gory1819

covey1821

chappie1822

Charley1825

hombre1832

brother-man1839

rooster1840

blokie1841

hoss1843

Joe1846

guy1847

plug1848

chal1851

rye1851

omee1859

bloke1861

guffin1862

gadgie1865

mug1865

kerel1873

stiff1882

snoozer1884

geezer1885

josser1886

dude1895

gazabo1896

jasper1896

prairie dog1897

sport1897

crow-eater1899

papa1903

gink1906

stud1909

scout1912

head1913

beezer1914

jeff1917

pisser1918

bimbo1919

bozo1920

gee1921

mush1936

rye mush1936

basher1942

okie1943

mugger1945

cat1946

ou1949

tess1952

oke1970

bra1974

muzhik1993

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Mauch muttoun, byt buttoun, peilit gluttoun, air to Hilhous.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxx. 32 Quha bene w^t beistly lust abusit, I hald him bot ane muttoun.

1888 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrong Box (1923) xiv. 158 ‘You innocent mutton,’ said Michael.

4. slang. Woman's flesh sought for the satisfaction of male lust; loose women, prostitutes collectively. Hence also: a woman's genitals; copulation. Now chiefly in to hawk one's mutton: (of a woman) to flaunt her sexual attractiveness, to solicit for lovers.See also mutton-monger n., laced mutton n. at laced adj.¹ Compounds 3.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner > collectively

muttona1529

man's meat1629

charver1846

gash1914

poontang1945

poon1947

pussyc1947

crumpet1958

grumble1962

tail1967

fanny1993

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > solicit

to hawk one's muttona1529

to sell one's bacon1825

importune1871

hook1959

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii^v Conuey. And from thens to the halfe strete To get vs there some freshe mete. Colus. Why is there any store of rawe motton.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Biiij^v What wylt thu fall to mutton?.. Ranke loue is full of heate.

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H3 The old lecher hath gotten holy mutton to him a Nunne my Lord.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C4^v I am one that loues an inch of raw Mutton better then an ell of fride stock fish, and the first letter of my name beginnes with leachery.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mutton-in-long-coats, Women.

1733 L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare I. 156 Your notable Wenchers are..call'd Mutton-mongers: and consequently the object of their Passion must, by the Metaphor, be the Mutton.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 184 Mutton, a contemptuous term for a woman of bad character... In that class of English society which does not lay any claim to refinement, a fond lover is often spoken of as being ‘fond of his mutton’.

1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 6/1 Mutton, a term for a woman of bad character sometimes varied to Laced Mutton.

1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? v. 53 He can't quite believe she hawks her mutton in hexagonal horn-rimmed spectacles.

1964 N. Freeling Double-barrel ii. viii. 65 In the army we used to say, of such and such a girl, nurse, waaf, whatever she was, ‘That one hawks her mutton.’

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed vii. 73 They're aw cows hawkin' their mutton.

†5. Short for mutton candle n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat

mutton fat1723

mutton light1795

mutton1825

mutton candle1842

1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 180 Why don't you ride and tye regularly, with your two muttons..when you want to be economical? And then no one would know they had not been allowed to burn on together, with an equal flame.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 174 A flight of sparrows..would flutter into the chapel and fan out the muttons with their wings.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxv Let us..bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth.

6. Stock Market. A tax on livestock, or a loan secured on this (see quots.). Now disused.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > [noun] > levied for specific object

locality1641

cess1817

mutton1881

1881 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/1 The tithes and muttons (as the tax on live stock is called) bring in 200,000 liras.

1887 G. D. Atkin Nick-names Stock Exchange Securities in House Scraps 16 Muttons, Turks [sc. Turkish loans of] 1873.

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 372/2 Mutton in pl. (Stock Exchanges).—The Turkish loans of 1865 and 1873. (From being in part secured on the sheep-tax.)

7. Printing. Short for mutton quad n. at Compounds 2.

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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material

reglet1636

space1676

headstick1683

quadrat1683

quotation1683

rule1683

space1683

quadc1781

spacer1857

mutton1938

1938 Amer. Speech 13 270 An em quad is a space the square of the type body... In the shop..frequently called muttons or monkeys.

1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 122/2 The popular name for an em quad is mutton.

Phrases

P1.

†a. to take (also eat, cut) one's (also a bit of) mutton with: to dine with. Obsolete.

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1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. i. 43 If you will come and eat a Bit of Mutton with me tomorrow, I'll see no body but yourself.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 210 Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them.

1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. xii. 196 Will you eat your mutton with me to-day, Palmer?

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. viii. 80 Will you take your mutton with me?

1894 Cent. Mag. Sept. 726/1 I shall dine at home to-day at 3. If you will cut your mutton with me, good.

b. (as) dead as mutton: completely dead. Also in extended use.

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1792 I. Bickerstaff Spoil'd Child ii. ii. 32 Thus let me seize my tender bit of lamb—there I think I had her as dead as mutton.

1832 T. Creevey in H. maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. 245 Dead as mutton, every man John of us!

1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. 176 I pulled up my pony, fired from the saddle,..and next instant..the koorhaan fell dead as mutton.

1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring vi. 63 Why is it,..that people will go on holding you down to your old ideas when they're as dead as mutton?

1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Theories Primitive Relig. v. 100 For the most part the theories we have been discussing are, for anthropologists at least, as dead as mutton.

1990 P. Wiat Child Bride (BNC) 161 Oh, the maid was dead right enough. Dead as mutton.

P2. British colloquial (derogatory). mutton dressed as lamb and variants: an ageing woman who is dressed or made up as if much younger. Also in extended use.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [phrase] > older woman dressed in young style

mutton dressed as lamb1811

the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > dressed as young

mutton dressed as lamb1811

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > one who dissembles

a wolf in a lamb's skin, in sheep's clothingc1460

figurea1513

seemera1616

fop1755

mutton dressed as lamb1811

comedian1893

faux bonhomme1916

1811 F. Calvert Jrnl. May in Irish Beauty (1911) 177 ‘Girl!’ answered he, ‘Girls are not to my taste. I don't like lamb; but mutton dressed like lamb!’

1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. x. 116 A Madonna-shaped front plastered down each side of her forehead—‘Mutton, dressed lamb fashion,’ as Mrs. Jorrocks observed.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 395 Look at young Davies makin' an ass of himself over mutton-dressed-as-lamb old enough to be his mother!

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xv. 307 Aggie Twitterton. Runs arter 'im like an old cat... At 'er age! Mutton dressed as lamb.

1967 V. S. Naipaul Mimic Men i. iii. 41 Our middle-aged ladies, mutton dressed as lamb, as our barman says.

1995 O. Clark Diary 17 Mar. (1998) 378 Don't like Miss Shere Hite. She's a feminist mutton dressed as lamb without even eye-make-up.

P3. Chiefly humorous. to return to one's muttons and variants [ < Middle French, French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’ (1480 as revenons a noz moutons), with allusion to a scene from the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin (1464) in which the judge, in order to bring the litigants back to the matter of the stolen sheep, exclaims revenons à ces moutons!, ‘let us return to these sheep’] : to return to the matter in hand. Similarly to stick to one's muttons.

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1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 5 Nov. in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 288 But to come back to our Muttons—the wind not being fair we did not sail.

1838 W. M. Thackeray Second Lect. Fine Arts in Wks. (1900) XIII. 280 But let us return to our muttons.

1883 M. Oliphant Hester (1984) xix. 196 He..turned away from the subject which had given him this momentary pleasure. ‘Let us return to our muttons,’ he said.

1903 A. Bennett Leonora iii. 72 I shall have to return to my muttons directly.

1930 Punch 28 May 606/3 Both houses, having dealt with the Whitsuntide holidays, resumed their muttons.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Mar. 6/7 Let's stick to our muttons, old man radio, and make it music alone.

1943 A. Hastings Bright Conversat. 24 Stick to your muttons, and don't talk tripe.

1974 N. Marsh Black as he's Painted i. 31 I digress... Shall we return to our muttons?

P4. New Zealand colloquial.

a. to hook one's mutton: (a) to take one's partner in a dance (rare); (b) to depart, to clear out.

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1929 ‘E. Milton’ Love & Chiffon 233 Look slippy, buddies. Hook your muttons for an extra.

1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 53 To hook one's bait or mutton, to depart (a variant of the English sling one's hook).

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. 177 Some expressions that have been claimed for New Zealand are at the rate of knots ‘very fast’, hook your mutton ‘clear out’.

1988 D. McGill Dict. Kiwi Slang 57 Hook your mutton clear out, similar to ‘slinging your hook’; eg ‘Let's hook our mutton, there's no welcome here, fellas’.

b. to be a person's muttons: to be a person's preferred or favourite thing; to be a person's strong point.

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1940 National Educ. (N.Z.) Feb. 17 Milk, however, is small Charlie's muttons.

1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 54 When we speak of something being our muttons or a person's muttons we mean that it is regarded with particular favour, that we like it especially well.

Compounds

C1.

† mutton-bouk n. [see bouk n.] Scottish Obsolete

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1507 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 17 To Robyn Cannygame for a mutton bowk quhen he was seik iij s.

1524 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 20 Ane mutton buke.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i. 20 Our meikle Pot that scads the Whey put on, A Mutton Bouk to boil.

mutton broth n.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups

breec1000

mortressc1387

cretone?a1400

mortrelc1400

primrosea1450

water-kale?a1500

white broth?1537

plum broth1614

mutton broth1615

veal brotha1625

nettle-kale?c1625

China-broth1628

bisque1647

beer-broth1648

dilligrout1662

nativity broth1674

sowdyc1700

mandarin broth1701

white soup1708

soup-vermicell1724

soup-meagre1733

burgoo1743

sago-gruel1743

soup maigre1754

vermicelli soup1769

vermicelli1771

noodle soup1779

mock turtle soup1783

pepper-water1783

mulligatawny1784

powsowdie1787

macaroni soup1789

bird's nest soup1806

smiggins1825

garbure1829

pish-pash1834

laksa1846

sancocho1851

ajiaco1856

pepper soup1860

liquorice-soup1864

mock turtle1876

borsch1884

petite marmite1890

whey-brose1894

rassolnik1899

lokshen soup1900

menudo1904

hoosh1905

sinigang1912

waterzooi1915

Cullen Skink1916

swallow's nest soup1920

mizutaki1933

rasam1933

pasta fazool1935

pho1935

pasta fagioli1951

stracciatella1954

solyanka1958

tom yam1960

mannish water1968

pasta e fagioli1968

ribollita1968

tom yam kung1969

1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments 50 Take the valew of a quart of strong mutton broth, or fat Kidde broth.

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ii. 52 About dinner time, I caused John to make some mutton broath.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xiii. 275 Have a cup of mutton-broth for him when he wakes.

1992 C. Cookson Rag Nymph (BNC) 33 She had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage.

† mutton-chine n. [ < chine n.²] Obsolete rare

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1712 M. Prior Extempore Invit. 4 If They can Dine On Bacon-Ham, and Mutton-chine.

mutton cutlet n.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > other cuts or parts

Jack1466

sheep's tongue1552

leg of mutton1570

porknell1596

nut1611

pope's eye1663

hand1671

mutton chop1696

mutton cutlet1706

wether-gammona1774

wobbler1823

Queen Elizabeth's bone1846

chump1861

skirt1881

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers

side wing1811

mutton chop1851

Dundreary whiskers1859

mutton cutlet1860

Piccadilly weeper1866

burnside1875

Dundrearies1876

sideburn1876

sidebar whiskers1882

sideboards1883

weeper1894

slugger1898

ear guards1905

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Haricot A particular way of dressing Mutton-cutlets, or several sorts of Fowl and Fish in a Ragoo with Turneps.

1730 J. Swift Lady's Dressing-room 99 Mutton-Cutlets, prime of Meat.

1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage II. xx. 44 The whiskers confined to the mutton cutlet form and size.

1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. 293 Sosaties..are a popular and delicious grill which can be as simple as veal or mutton cutlets sprinkled with curry powder and roasted on a skewer.

mutton gravy n.

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1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 139 With some Mutton-gravy, beat or shake them well together in the Pan.

1999 Re: Best Vegetable in rec.audio.pro (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. ‘I would like to know what the best vegetable is.’ ‘Silver beet—steamed, served with mutton gravy.’

mutton pasty n.

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a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) ii. 22 Why heares an age to make a Cooke..make mutton pasties of Dogs flesh.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Muttonpasty, a muttonpie.

1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne iii. 33 A breakfast of mutton-pasty and ham.

1921 Hotel Monthly Feb. 21/2 Hot mutton pasty was a thing I had often heard of from very wealthy boys and men.

2004 P. Gregory Virgin's Lover 297 It was a good dinner, with venison steaks, a mutton pasty, a chicken broth, and some puddings.

mutton soup n.

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1793 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Sept. (1929) iv. 56 Dinner today, boiled Chine of Beef, Mutton Soup..and a fine fat Rail.

1866 F. Moore Women of War 168 No more caldrons of gruel and mutton soup to be cooked for great wards full of half-famished boys.

1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 162/3 I started with a bowl of pâte en pot, not the usual mutton soup, but a delicate vegetable broth.

mutton steak n.

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1700 E. Ward Dancing-school 16 I offer'd for some Mutton-Stakes a Crown, But could not get one Chop throughout the Town.

1764 C. F. Esberger Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1902) 21 Had some mutton Stakes for Supper.

1830 J. Neal Authorship iv. 41 The waiter brings me a heap of mutton steaks.

1913 C. F. Langworthy & C. L. Hunt Mutton & Value in Diet (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (Farmers' Bull. 526) 22 Spread over trhe mutton steak a layer of bread crumbs mixed with the minced onion and other seasonings.

2007 J. Atkinson City in Amber iv. 71 I might as well hand you a portion of mutton steak from tomorrow's dinner.

mutton suet n.

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1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. iii. 351 You may take what quantity you please of Mutton Suet, or Lambs Suet, and wash it in Rose water, when it is melted and clarified, and annoint the paps with it.

1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. 85 An Ounce and a half of Mutton Suet.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 107 Mutton-suet is used in the manufacture of common candles.

1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days ii. 43 Then pray reach me down the little keg of hog's lard, the jar of mutton suet, and the quicksilver.

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† mutton-broker n. Obsolete rare = mutton-monger n.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp

putourc1390

panderc1450

mitchera1500

apple-squire?1536

squire of dames or ladies1590

apron-squire1593

bed-broker1594

pimp1600

pippin squire1600

petticoat-monger1605

smockster1608

underputter1608

broker-between1609

squire of the placket1611

squire1612

fleshmongera1616

cock bawd1632

whiskin1632

pimp-whiskin1638

bully1675

foot pimp1690

mutton-broker1694

pimp whisk1707

flash-man1789

panderer1826

bludger1856

whoremaster1864

mack1894

lover1904

jelly bean1905

procureur1910

P.I.1928

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

nookie-bookie1943

papasan1970

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 217 Procurers, and Mutton-Brokers.

mutton busting n. North American a rodeo event for young children in which each participant attempts to remain on the back of a sheep for as long as possible; frequently attributive.

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1979 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 28 June 12/1 (caption) John Deutsch, 2,..looked for a soft place to land during the recent Wild Mutton Bustin' event at the Innisfale Little Britches Rodeo.

1995 Denver Post 16 Jan. aa3/2 Although fairly new to the stock show, mutton bustin' has long been a popular event elsewhere on the rodeo circuit.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June b10/1 As a boy, he had started off mutton busting..at junior rodeos.

† mutton candle n. Obsolete rare a candle made from mutton fat.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat

mutton fat1723

mutton light1795

mutton1825

mutton candle1842

1842 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton in Dublin Univ. Mag. June 692/2 Endeavouring to read by the light of mutton candles.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) v. 33 If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much [etc.].

mutton cloth n. a type of loosely woven fabric used esp. for making cleaning cloths.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > knitted fabric > types of

chainwork1832

wool-work1871

mutton cloth1923

lock knit1962

raschel1974

1923 Daily Mail 12 Mar. 2 (advt.) Stockinette is white mutton cloth in its new form, and everyone knows there is nothing to beat it for any kind of cleaning or polishing.

1957 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 67 Mutton cloth, a plain-knitted fabric of loose texture, usually cotton, made on a multi-feeder circular knitting machine.

1988 Woodworker Apr. 331/3 If the original finish was gloss, use a little glossoid burnishing cream with washed mutton cloth and burnish vigorously to a full gloss finish.

† mutton-cumber n. [perhaps < mutton n. + -cumber (in cucumber n.), after cowcumber, variant of cucumber n.] Obsolete rare a cucumber or similar fruit.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > cucumber > types of

gherkin1661

mutton-cumber1694

horse-cucumber1707

1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 47 Cucumbers or Mutton-cumbers..being so commonly known.

† mutton driver n. Obsolete a sheep-stealer.

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a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Muttoun dryver, girnall ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the.

mutton-faced adj. rare having a sheep's face (used as a term of abuse).

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1825 ‘J. Bee’ Sportsman's Slang 122 Muffin-faced,..mostly cooks, idle gourmands, &c. who delight in fat, soups, and slip-slops, evolve mutton-faced.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 193 ‘You ——, ——, little, mutton-faced Dutchman,’ Nares would bawl.

1906 B. Lubbock Jack Derringer i. xi. 119 ‘Haul, yew mutton-faced haymakers, haul!’ bellowed the mate.

† mutton haft n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a knife handle made from a sheep's bone.

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1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 70 Here's the sixpenny whittle you gave me, with the Mutton haft.

mutton-leg sleeve n. = leg-of-mutton sleeve at leg of mutton adj. 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of

poke1402

foresleeve1538

long sleeve1538

lumbard1542

puller out1543

maunch1550

hand sleeve1585

French sleeve1592

poke sleeve1592

puff1601

trunk sleeve1603

stock-sleeve1611

hoop-sleeve1614

puff sleevec1632

short sleeve1639

hanging sleeve1659

engageants1690

jockey-sleeve1692

pudding-sleeve1704

Amadis1814

gigot1824

leg of mutton1824

bishop sleeve1829

mutton-leg sleeve1830

balloon sleeve1837

gigot-sleeve1837

bag-sleeve1844

pagoda sleeve1850

mameluke sleeve1853

angel sleeve1859

elbow-sleeve1875

sling-sleeve1888

sleevelet1889

pagoda1890

bell-sleeve1892

kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

1830 Ladies' Mag. 3 183 Think of such terms as mutton leg sleeves, for example.

1845 Lowell (Mass.) Offering V. 201 Here is a piece of the first dress I ever saw, cut with what were called ‘mutton-leg’ sleeves.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 417 In..widow Twankey's blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind.

† mutton light n. Obsolete = mutton candle n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat

mutton fat1723

mutton light1795

mutton1825

mutton candle1842

1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 171 Nay, while a mutton-light remains, A sun with us no credit gains, But yields to ev'ry farthing candle.

1844 Bentley's Misc. 5 Oct. 413 On the table were..two or three tumbler, an end of ‘mutton light’.

† mutton-master n. Obsolete rare = mutton-monger n.

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1729 L. Theobald Let. 6 Nov. in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1817) II. 254 He is a notable whoremaster, or, as we have it in another vulgar idiom, a mutton-master.

† mutton measles n. Veterinary Medicine Obsolete rare a disease of sheep caused by infection with cysticerci.

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1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mutton measles, the cysticercus of the flesh of the sheep; probably the larval form of Taenia tenella.

mutton pie n. a pie made with mutton.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie

rafiolea1425

shred-pie1573

Florentine1579

marrowbone pie1595

marrow pie1598

meat pie1607

mutton pie1607

olive pie1615

venison piea1616

flesh-pie1616

veal (and ham) piea1625

godiveau1653

lumber-pie1656

mermaid pie1661

umble-pie1663

humble piea1665

trotter-pie1693

stump pie1695

mugget pie1696

pot-pie1702

squab-pie1708

pork pie1723

steak pie1723

Perigord pie1751

pasticcio1772

fidget pie1790

muggety pie1800

numble pie1822

Florentine pie1823

pastilla1834

kidney-pie1836

beef-steak pie1841

stand pie1872

Melton Mowbray1875

timbale1880

pâté en croûte1929

tourtière1953

growler1989

1607 R. West Gamester in Court of Conscience sig. D3 Tis your guise, To meditate on pots and Mutton pies.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 4 Jan. (1970) III. 3 We had some base rost beefe and a mutton-pie.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 367. ¶4 They [sc. sheets of the Spectator]..make a good Foundation for a Mutton-pye.

1764 Oxf. Sausage 17 Ben Tyrrell, Cook of high Renown, To please the Palates of the Gown, At Three-pence each, makes Mutton-Pies.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 196 An old mutton-pie-man was run over as he was crossing Piccadilly.

1993 Guardian 11 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 54/3 At Barnstaple, you can buy..royal mutton pies and Greek baklava.

mutton quad n. Printing slang an em quad.

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1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 309/2 Mutton Quad, a slang term, in English printing-offices, for em quad.

1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 91 Mutton quad, an em quadrant.

† mutton-saddle n. Obsolete rare (probably) a saddle of mutton.

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1761 J. Armstrong Day 160 But let me ne'er of mutton-saddle eat.

mutton sheep n. a sheep bred for meat, not for wool.

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1520 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 191 Dauid Anderson..producit witht twa muttone scheip the said Dauid grantit the sammyn lauchfull.

1842 Ld. Western in J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 380 A request..that I would fairly try how far it was possible, to make them into mutton sheep.

1957 Handbk. Farmers (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) III. 210 A commencement was made in 1940 with the development of the Dormer..as a slaughter-lamb breed. This was done because the German Merino mutton sheep is resistant to Muellerius [sc. lungworm].

mutton snapper n. any of various snapper fishes of the genus Lutjanus; esp. the large, usually pinkish L. analis, of the Caribbean and western Atlantic, distinguished by a black blotch on each side.

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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 490 Mutton-snapper, a large fish of the Mesoprion genus, frequenting tropical seas.

1867 Trans. Royal Soc. Arts & Agric. 1 25 Mutton snapper, ?Mesoprion campecheanus.

1995 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 7 Nov. 8 c Offshore, bottom fishermen caught some mangrove and mutton snapper in 65–80 feet of water.

† mutton tea n. Obsolete a beverage produced from mutton in a similar manner to beef tea.

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1786 R. Willan in Med. Communications 2 117 He had this day some mutton tea.

1836 J. Roberts Young Cook's Guide 2 Mutton Tea. Take two pounds of the lean part of a leg of mutton..; put this into a stewpan and cover it with water, and proceed in the same way as directed for beef tea.

mutton thumper n. U.S. slang rare an incompetent bookbinder.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Mutton thumper, a bungling bookbinder.

† mutton tugger n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a licentious man.

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c1600 in A. Wood Life (1891–1900) I. 293 [The Oxford colleges are] the nurseries of wickedness, the nests of mutton tuggers, the dens of formall droanes.

† mutton-water n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) mutton broth.

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1771 Med. Observ. & Inq. IV. 62 She had thrown up some mutton-water which had been prescribed for common drink.

muttonwood n. New Zealand any of several daisy bushes with leathery leaves, esp. Olearia colensoi.

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1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 205 Olearia Colensoi mutton-wood. Mr Traill informs me that it is the tupari of the Stewart island Natives; it is, however, generally termed ‘mutton-bird wood’, or ‘mutton-wood’ by settlers, on account of its growing on outlying islands frequented by mutton-birds.

1982 H. D. Wilson Stewart Island Plants 102 Pūheretāiko... Muttonwood... Shrub or small tree.

1994 E. Orsman & H. Orsman N.Z. Dict. 300/1 Tupare, any of various native tree daisies possessing leathery leaves, usually Olearia species, especially O. colensoi. Also called muttonwood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mutton
释义	muttonn. Brit. /ˈmʌtn/, U.S. /ˈmətn/ Forms: Middle English moltoun, Middle English motene, Middle English motone, Middle English motoun, Middle English motun, Middle English motune, Middle English mutoun, Middle English–1500s moton, Middle English–1500s motonne, Middle English–1500s motton, Middle English–1500s mouton, Middle English–1600s moten, Middle English–1600s multon, Middle English–1600s muton, Middle English– mutton, 1500s mowton, 1500s muttoun, 1500s–1600s motten, 1500s–1600s mutten, 1800s mothon (Irish English), 1800s mothoon (Irish English), 1800s muthon (Irish English); Scottish pre-1700 motone, pre-1700 motoun, pre-1700 motton, pre-1700 mottoun, pre-1700 mottoune, pre-1700 moutoun, pre-1700 mowtoun, pre-1700 mowtoune, pre-1700 mowttone, pre-1700 mowtyne, pre-1700 multoun, pre-1700 muton, pre-1700 mutone, pre-1700 mutoun, pre-1700 mutoune, pre-1700 mutown, pre-1700 muttone, pre-1700 muttoun, pre-1700 muttoune, pre-1700 muttownn, pre-1700 muttun, pre-1700 muttwn, pre-1700 mwtoun, pre-1700 mwttone, pre-1700 mwttoun, pre-1700 mwtun, pre-1700 1700s– mutton. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mutun, mouton. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mutun, multun, moton, motoun, motun, mouton, etc., and Old French, Middle French mouton, muton, etc. (French mouton) ram (early 12th cent. in form multum), ram raised for slaughter (mid 12th cent. in form mutun), wether, sheep of either sex (later 12th cent.), meat of a sheep (early 13th cent.) < post-classical Latin multo wether, ram, sheep (from 8th cent. in British and continental sources; also in forms molto (early 10th cent.), mutto (early 12th cent.), muto (early 13th cent.)), probably < a Gaulish word related to Early Irish molt ram, wether, Welsh mollt wether, Cornish mols wether, sheep, Breton maout sheep, mutton, ram. Compare Old Occitan molton, mouto (late 12th cent.), Catalan moltò (907 as †moltone), Italian montone ram (a1292), Italian regional (Venice) moltone ram.Apparently attested earlier in surnames, from the beginning of the 13th cent., as Walterus Mutun (c1200), Robertus Mutun (1242–3), Willelmus Mutun (1285). In its earliest attestations post-classical Latin multo appears to denote a male sheep indiscriminately, whether ram or wether, although examples of the latter predominate owing to the greater numbers and economic importance of the castrated animal. The Latin word and subsequently the Anglo-Norman and Old French words came to denote both ‘ram’ and ‘sheep’, replacing both classical Latin ovis ewe, sheep, and classical Latin vervex wether (although the latter was used in Gallo-Romance to denote sheep from the 5th cent. until its eventual specialization in meaning to ‘ewe’: > French brebis ). An earlier etymology which derived post-classical Latin multo by metathesis from classical Latin mutilus in the sense ‘deprived of horns’ or ‘castrated’ (see mutilate v.) is now generally rejected, as it is unlikely that the Celtic forms are connected with the post-classical Latin word. 1. a. The flesh of sheep, used as food. Cf. lamb n.¹ 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] muttonc1300 sheep-meat1975 c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 344 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 472 (MED) Huy nomen with heom in heore schip..Gies and hennes..porc, motoun, and beof. c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 72 (MED) Stwed Mutton: Take faire Mutton that hath ben roste..and mynce it faire. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 46 (MED) Take fresshe brothe of motene clene. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 152 Mustard is meete for brawne, beef, or powdred motoun. c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 461 Sancte Iulyane..In til his tyme wes na glotone, na wont wes nocht to ete motone. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xv. f. lix^v Men bye byefe or moten out of y^e bouchers shoppes. a1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Posies 147 Fiue flocks of sheepe coulde scarce mainteine good mutton for his house. 1609 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 166 Ane jeikat of muttoun. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 50 Of Mutton..that is the best, which is of an yeere or two olde. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 19 Mar. (1948) I. 219 They..had a breast of mutton and a pint of wine. 1747 G. Underwood Let. 13 July in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 159 The provisions..were a Loin, a Rib, two Rumps and..two legs of Mutton. 1784 E. Allen Reason iii. §4. 137 To reward moral actions with a glass of wine or a shoulder of mutton, would be as inadequate, as to measure a triangle with sound. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich v. 35 Racing home for the eight o'clock mutton. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce i. v. 49 Welsh sheep are small, but the mutton is renowned for the delicacy of its flavour. 1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents x The steaming dish of mutton and vegetables. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room iii. 53 She directed the maid to give Mr. Flanders a second helping of mutton. 1980 G. Lord Fortress viii. 69 The mutton was cooked brown and stringy. b. The flesh of goats, used as food. Also goat mutton. Chiefly Australian and South Asian. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] ass flesha1398 goat's meat1593 dog's meat1655 mutton1711 dog meat1805 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 151 Goat Mutton..4 [i.e.per Catty]. 1830 R. Sharp Diary 22 Apr. (1997) 256 We had Goat mutton in the town last week!!! 1897 J. J. Murif From Ocean to Ocean 57 No sheep beyond Oodnadatta either... The goat's flesh is called ‘mutton’. 1930 D. Cottrell Earth Battle 125 She put..the damper and cold goat mutton on a newspaper. 1988 S. Rushdie Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery iii. 50 In subcontinental English, ‘mutton’ is the name for the meat of both goat and kid... Our mutton, or goat's meat, is leaner, more tender and delicatedly flavoured then lamb. 1999 Kathmandu Post (Electronic ed.) 15 Oct. The annual festival is the time when many families ensure steady supply of meat with a purchase of a goat. Mutton varieties are the most popular item in the Nepali menu during Dashain. 2. a. A sheep, esp. one intended to be eaten. Chiefly New Zealand or humorous in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > humorous names for mutton?c1335 lion of Cotswold1546 Cotswold lion1548 Lammermoor lion1721 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > sheep for slaughter mutton?c1335 ration sheep1872 freezer1889 ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 135 (MED) Þat on him send gees and henne, Þat oþer geet and motune. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1060 The Wolf in pes with the Moltoun. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 174 A bouke of a motoun. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clvii. 231 Oxen, Kyen, Motons and other vytaylles. 1565 Lady Lovat in J. Fraser Polichron. (1905) 153 With twa mutowns yearly price of the pice thratin s. iiij d. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 37 Moldavia and Valachia do serve them with beeves and muttons. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccclxxxv. 461 The Sheep in this Fable was clearly too hard for the Two Doctors; and we find all those Reasonings to be true in the World, which the Mutton Alleges in the Fiction. 1749 E. Synge Let. 26 Sept. (1996) 172 Don't order a Mutton to be kill'd. I have but a few. 1795 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 81 A mutton, statelier than the rest, A ram, the ewes and wethers, sad, address'd. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Legend St. Sophia of Kioff A humble company of pious men, Like muttons in a pen. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 7 How long, now, would the roughest marketman..Harass a mutton ere she made a mouth Or menaced biting? 1956 J. Dare Rouseabout Jane 171 It was not long before I was promoted to killing three muttons each week. 1988 ‘C. Gidley’ Armada (BNC) 46 Leonora had had a mutton killed in anticipation of a family celebration. b. The carcass of a sheep; (Scottish) †such carcasses collectively (obsolete). Now New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > carcass scalding1302 muttona1425 a1425 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 40 (MED) Vetalls þe same day..Halfe a oxe..A swane..xvj plovers, a moton. 1444 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 11 That na fleshowar..tak oute of onye mutone the neris..under payne of eschete of the mutoune to the balyhes. 1531 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 107/1 Twa martis and tuu mottonis. 1551 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 161 That na maner of flescheouris..cut nor slit ony mwtun. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 622 In many places they salt their Muttens when they are killed, and so eat them out of the pickle. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 108 in Wks. II Goes to the Butchers, fetches in a muton. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 108 I was presented with half a Mutton. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 8 The carcases of..80 beeves, 600 bacons, and 600 muttons. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 189 There were butchers' shops..presenting no such generously fattened carcases as Englishmen love to gaze at in the market, no stupendous halves of mighty beeves, no dead hogs or muttons. 1890 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 23 Jan. 43 The favourite morsel of the unhappy mutton which attracts the kea [sc. a mountain parrot]..is the fat on the kidneys. 1988 Univ. Entrance Board Bursaries Exam. Eng. 6 He gave her a mutton once or twice a year for looking after me. †c. spec. A castrated ram; a wether. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > castrated or wether wetherc890 wether sheep13.. muttonc1450 stag1784 hamel1835 wedder1866 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 597/10 Multo, a wether, or a moton. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem ii. 135 Ane man taken with reid hand, with ane sheip, or muton, or with ane calfe,..sould not be put to death, bot suld be scurged. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 64 Ewes and Rams are subject to far more maladies than Muttons. †3. Chiefly Scottish (depreciative). A man, a fellow. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Mauch muttoun, byt buttoun, peilit gluttoun, air to Hilhous. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxx. 32 Quha bene w^t beistly lust abusit, I hald him bot ane muttoun. 1888 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrong Box (1923) xiv. 158 ‘You innocent mutton,’ said Michael. 4. slang. Woman's flesh sought for the satisfaction of male lust; loose women, prostitutes collectively. Hence also: a woman's genitals; copulation. Now chiefly in to hawk one's mutton: (of a woman) to flaunt her sexual attractiveness, to solicit for lovers.See also mutton-monger n., laced mutton n. at laced adj.¹ Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner > collectively muttona1529 man's meat1629 charver1846 gash1914 poontang1945 poon1947 pussyc1947 crumpet1958 grumble1962 tail1967 fanny1993 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > solicit to hawk one's muttona1529 to sell one's bacon1825 importune1871 hook1959 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii^v Conuey. And from thens to the halfe strete To get vs there some freshe mete. Colus. Why is there any store of rawe motton. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Biiij^v What wylt thu fall to mutton?.. Ranke loue is full of heate. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H3 The old lecher hath gotten holy mutton to him a Nunne my Lord. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C4^v I am one that loues an inch of raw Mutton better then an ell of fride stock fish, and the first letter of my name beginnes with leachery. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mutton-in-long-coats, Women. 1733 L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare I. 156 Your notable Wenchers are..call'd Mutton-mongers: and consequently the object of their Passion must, by the Metaphor, be the Mutton. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 184 Mutton, a contemptuous term for a woman of bad character... In that class of English society which does not lay any claim to refinement, a fond lover is often spoken of as being ‘fond of his mutton’. 1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 6/1 Mutton, a term for a woman of bad character sometimes varied to Laced Mutton. 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? v. 53 He can't quite believe she hawks her mutton in hexagonal horn-rimmed spectacles. 1964 N. Freeling Double-barrel ii. viii. 65 In the army we used to say, of such and such a girl, nurse, waaf, whatever she was, ‘That one hawks her mutton.’ 1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed vii. 73 They're aw cows hawkin' their mutton. †5. Short for mutton candle n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat mutton fat1723 mutton light1795 mutton1825 mutton candle1842 1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 180 Why don't you ride and tye regularly, with your two muttons..when you want to be economical? And then no one would know they had not been allowed to burn on together, with an equal flame. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 174 A flight of sparrows..would flutter into the chapel and fan out the muttons with their wings. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxv Let us..bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth. 6. Stock Market. A tax on livestock, or a loan secured on this (see quots.). Now disused. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > [noun] > levied for specific object locality1641 cess1817 mutton1881 1881 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/1 The tithes and muttons (as the tax on live stock is called) bring in 200,000 liras. 1887 G. D. Atkin Nick-names Stock Exchange Securities in House Scraps 16 Muttons, Turks [sc. Turkish loans of] 1873. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 372/2 Mutton in pl. (Stock Exchanges).—The Turkish loans of 1865 and 1873. (From being in part secured on the sheep-tax.) 7. Printing. Short for mutton quad n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material reglet1636 space1676 headstick1683 quadrat1683 quotation1683 rule1683 space1683 quadc1781 spacer1857 mutton1938 1938 Amer. Speech 13 270 An em quad is a space the square of the type body... In the shop..frequently called muttons or monkeys. 1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 122/2 The popular name for an em quad is mutton. Phrases P1. †a. to take (also eat, cut) one's (also a bit of) mutton with: to dine with. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. i. 43 If you will come and eat a Bit of Mutton with me tomorrow, I'll see no body but yourself. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 210 Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them. View more context for this quotation 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. xii. 196 Will you eat your mutton with me to-day, Palmer? 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. viii. 80 Will you take your mutton with me? 1894 Cent. Mag. Sept. 726/1 I shall dine at home to-day at 3. If you will cut your mutton with me, good. b. (as) dead as mutton: completely dead. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1792 I. Bickerstaff Spoil'd Child ii. ii. 32 Thus let me seize my tender bit of lamb—there I think I had her as dead as mutton. 1832 T. Creevey in H. maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. 245 Dead as mutton, every man John of us! 1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. 176 I pulled up my pony, fired from the saddle,..and next instant..the koorhaan fell dead as mutton. 1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring vi. 63 Why is it,..that people will go on holding you down to your old ideas when they're as dead as mutton? 1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Theories Primitive Relig. v. 100 For the most part the theories we have been discussing are, for anthropologists at least, as dead as mutton. 1990 P. Wiat Child Bride (BNC) 161 Oh, the maid was dead right enough. Dead as mutton. P2. British colloquial (derogatory). mutton dressed as lamb and variants: an ageing woman who is dressed or made up as if much younger. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [phrase] > older woman dressed in young style mutton dressed as lamb1811 the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > dressed as young mutton dressed as lamb1811 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > one who dissembles a wolf in a lamb's skin, in sheep's clothingc1460 figurea1513 seemera1616 fop1755 mutton dressed as lamb1811 comedian1893 faux bonhomme1916 1811 F. Calvert Jrnl. May in Irish Beauty (1911) 177 ‘Girl!’ answered he, ‘Girls are not to my taste. I don't like lamb; but mutton dressed like lamb!’ 1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. x. 116 A Madonna-shaped front plastered down each side of her forehead—‘Mutton, dressed lamb fashion,’ as Mrs. Jorrocks observed. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 395 Look at young Davies makin' an ass of himself over mutton-dressed-as-lamb old enough to be his mother! 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xv. 307 Aggie Twitterton. Runs arter 'im like an old cat... At 'er age! Mutton dressed as lamb. 1967 V. S. Naipaul Mimic Men i. iii. 41 Our middle-aged ladies, mutton dressed as lamb, as our barman says. 1995 O. Clark Diary 17 Mar. (1998) 378 Don't like Miss Shere Hite. She's a feminist mutton dressed as lamb without even eye-make-up. P3. Chiefly humorous. to return to one's muttons and variants [ < Middle French, French revenons à nos moutons, lit. ‘let us return to our sheep’ (1480 as revenons a noz moutons), with allusion to a scene from the Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin (1464) in which the judge, in order to bring the litigants back to the matter of the stolen sheep, exclaims revenons à ces moutons!, ‘let us return to these sheep’] : to return to the matter in hand. Similarly to stick to one's muttons. ΚΠ 1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 5 Nov. in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 288 But to come back to our Muttons—the wind not being fair we did not sail. 1838 W. M. Thackeray Second Lect. Fine Arts in Wks. (1900) XIII. 280 But let us return to our muttons. 1883 M. Oliphant Hester (1984) xix. 196 He..turned away from the subject which had given him this momentary pleasure. ‘Let us return to our muttons,’ he said. 1903 A. Bennett Leonora iii. 72 I shall have to return to my muttons directly. 1930 Punch 28 May 606/3 Both houses, having dealt with the Whitsuntide holidays, resumed their muttons. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Mar. 6/7 Let's stick to our muttons, old man radio, and make it music alone. 1943 A. Hastings Bright Conversat. 24 Stick to your muttons, and don't talk tripe. 1974 N. Marsh Black as he's Painted i. 31 I digress... Shall we return to our muttons? P4. New Zealand colloquial. a. to hook one's mutton: (a) to take one's partner in a dance (rare); (b) to depart, to clear out. ΚΠ 1929 ‘E. Milton’ Love & Chiffon 233 Look slippy, buddies. Hook your muttons for an extra. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 53 To hook one's bait or mutton, to depart (a variant of the English sling one's hook). 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. 177 Some expressions that have been claimed for New Zealand are at the rate of knots ‘very fast’, hook your mutton ‘clear out’. 1988 D. McGill Dict. Kiwi Slang 57 Hook your mutton clear out, similar to ‘slinging your hook’; eg ‘Let's hook our mutton, there's no welcome here, fellas’. b. to be a person's muttons: to be a person's preferred or favourite thing; to be a person's strong point. ΚΠ 1940 National Educ. (N.Z.) Feb. 17 Milk, however, is small Charlie's muttons. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 54 When we speak of something being our muttons or a person's muttons we mean that it is regarded with particular favour, that we like it especially well. Compounds C1. † mutton-bouk n. [see bouk n.] Scottish Obsolete ΚΠ 1507 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 17 To Robyn Cannygame for a mutton bowk quhen he was seik iij s. 1524 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 20 Ane mutton buke. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i. 20 Our meikle Pot that scads the Whey put on, A Mutton Bouk to boil. mutton broth n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups breec1000 mortressc1387 cretone?a1400 mortrelc1400 primrosea1450 water-kale?a1500 white broth?1537 plum broth1614 mutton broth1615 veal brotha1625 nettle-kale?c1625 China-broth1628 bisque1647 beer-broth1648 dilligrout1662 nativity broth1674 sowdyc1700 mandarin broth1701 white soup1708 soup-vermicell1724 soup-meagre1733 burgoo1743 sago-gruel1743 soup maigre1754 vermicelli soup1769 vermicelli1771 noodle soup1779 mock turtle soup1783 pepper-water1783 mulligatawny1784 powsowdie1787 macaroni soup1789 bird's nest soup1806 smiggins1825 garbure1829 pish-pash1834 laksa1846 sancocho1851 ajiaco1856 pepper soup1860 liquorice-soup1864 mock turtle1876 borsch1884 petite marmite1890 whey-brose1894 rassolnik1899 lokshen soup1900 menudo1904 hoosh1905 sinigang1912 waterzooi1915 Cullen Skink1916 swallow's nest soup1920 mizutaki1933 rasam1933 pasta fazool1935 pho1935 pasta fagioli1951 stracciatella1954 solyanka1958 tom yam1960 mannish water1968 pasta e fagioli1968 ribollita1968 tom yam kung1969 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments 50 Take the valew of a quart of strong mutton broth, or fat Kidde broth. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ii. 52 About dinner time, I caused John to make some mutton broath. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xiii. 275 Have a cup of mutton-broth for him when he wakes. 1992 C. Cookson Rag Nymph (BNC) 33 She had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage. † mutton-chine n. [ < chine n.²] Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1712 M. Prior Extempore Invit. 4 If They can Dine On Bacon-Ham, and Mutton-chine. mutton cutlet n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > other cuts or parts Jack1466 sheep's tongue1552 leg of mutton1570 porknell1596 nut1611 pope's eye1663 hand1671 mutton chop1696 mutton cutlet1706 wether-gammona1774 wobbler1823 Queen Elizabeth's bone1846 chump1861 skirt1881 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers side wing1811 mutton chop1851 Dundreary whiskers1859 mutton cutlet1860 Piccadilly weeper1866 burnside1875 Dundrearies1876 sideburn1876 sidebar whiskers1882 sideboards1883 weeper1894 slugger1898 ear guards1905 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Haricot A particular way of dressing Mutton-cutlets, or several sorts of Fowl and Fish in a Ragoo with Turneps. 1730 J. Swift Lady's Dressing-room 99 Mutton-Cutlets, prime of Meat. 1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage II. xx. 44 The whiskers confined to the mutton cutlet form and size. 1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. 293 Sosaties..are a popular and delicious grill which can be as simple as veal or mutton cutlets sprinkled with curry powder and roasted on a skewer. mutton gravy n. ΚΠ 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 139 With some Mutton-gravy, beat or shake them well together in the Pan. 1999 Re: Best Vegetable in rec.audio.pro (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. ‘I would like to know what the best vegetable is.’ ‘Silver beet—steamed, served with mutton gravy.’ mutton pasty n. ΚΠ a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) ii. 22 Why heares an age to make a Cooke..make mutton pasties of Dogs flesh. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Muttonpasty, a muttonpie. 1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne iii. 33 A breakfast of mutton-pasty and ham. 1921 Hotel Monthly Feb. 21/2 Hot mutton pasty was a thing I had often heard of from very wealthy boys and men. 2004 P. Gregory Virgin's Lover 297 It was a good dinner, with venison steaks, a mutton pasty, a chicken broth, and some puddings. mutton soup n. ΚΠ 1793 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Sept. (1929) iv. 56 Dinner today, boiled Chine of Beef, Mutton Soup..and a fine fat Rail. 1866 F. Moore Women of War 168 No more caldrons of gruel and mutton soup to be cooked for great wards full of half-famished boys. 1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 162/3 I started with a bowl of pâte en pot, not the usual mutton soup, but a delicate vegetable broth. mutton steak n. ΚΠ 1700 E. Ward Dancing-school 16 I offer'd for some Mutton-Stakes a Crown, But could not get one Chop throughout the Town. 1764 C. F. Esberger Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1902) 21 Had some mutton Stakes for Supper. 1830 J. Neal Authorship iv. 41 The waiter brings me a heap of mutton steaks. 1913 C. F. Langworthy & C. L. Hunt Mutton & Value in Diet (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (Farmers' Bull. 526) 22 Spread over trhe mutton steak a layer of bread crumbs mixed with the minced onion and other seasonings. 2007 J. Atkinson City in Amber iv. 71 I might as well hand you a portion of mutton steak from tomorrow's dinner. mutton suet n. ΚΠ 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. iii. 351 You may take what quantity you please of Mutton Suet, or Lambs Suet, and wash it in Rose water, when it is melted and clarified, and annoint the paps with it. 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. 85 An Ounce and a half of Mutton Suet. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 107 Mutton-suet is used in the manufacture of common candles. 1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days ii. 43 Then pray reach me down the little keg of hog's lard, the jar of mutton suet, and the quicksilver. C2. † mutton-broker n. Obsolete rare = mutton-monger n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 217 Procurers, and Mutton-Brokers. mutton busting n. North American a rodeo event for young children in which each participant attempts to remain on the back of a sheep for as long as possible; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1979 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 28 June 12/1 (caption) John Deutsch, 2,..looked for a soft place to land during the recent Wild Mutton Bustin' event at the Innisfale Little Britches Rodeo. 1995 Denver Post 16 Jan. aa3/2 Although fairly new to the stock show, mutton bustin' has long been a popular event elsewhere on the rodeo circuit. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June b10/1 As a boy, he had started off mutton busting..at junior rodeos. † mutton candle n. Obsolete rare a candle made from mutton fat. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat mutton fat1723 mutton light1795 mutton1825 mutton candle1842 1842 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton in Dublin Univ. Mag. June 692/2 Endeavouring to read by the light of mutton candles. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) v. 33 If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much [etc.]. mutton cloth n. a type of loosely woven fabric used esp. for making cleaning cloths. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > knitted fabric > types of chainwork1832 wool-work1871 mutton cloth1923 lock knit1962 raschel1974 1923 Daily Mail 12 Mar. 2 (advt.) Stockinette is white mutton cloth in its new form, and everyone knows there is nothing to beat it for any kind of cleaning or polishing. 1957 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 67 Mutton cloth, a plain-knitted fabric of loose texture, usually cotton, made on a multi-feeder circular knitting machine. 1988 Woodworker Apr. 331/3 If the original finish was gloss, use a little glossoid burnishing cream with washed mutton cloth and burnish vigorously to a full gloss finish. † mutton-cumber n. [perhaps < mutton n. + -cumber (in cucumber n.), after cowcumber, variant of cucumber n.] Obsolete rare a cucumber or similar fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > cucumber > types of gherkin1661 mutton-cumber1694 horse-cucumber1707 1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 47 Cucumbers or Mutton-cumbers..being so commonly known. † mutton driver n. Obsolete a sheep-stealer. ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Muttoun dryver, girnall ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the. mutton-faced adj. rare having a sheep's face (used as a term of abuse). ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Bee’ Sportsman's Slang 122 Muffin-faced,..mostly cooks, idle gourmands, &c. who delight in fat, soups, and slip-slops, evolve mutton-faced. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 193 ‘You ——, ——, little, mutton-faced Dutchman,’ Nares would bawl. 1906 B. Lubbock Jack Derringer i. xi. 119 ‘Haul, yew mutton-faced haymakers, haul!’ bellowed the mate. † mutton haft n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a knife handle made from a sheep's bone. ΚΠ 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 70 Here's the sixpenny whittle you gave me, with the Mutton haft. mutton-leg sleeve n. = leg-of-mutton sleeve at leg of mutton adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 1830 Ladies' Mag. 3 183 Think of such terms as mutton leg sleeves, for example. 1845 Lowell (Mass.) Offering V. 201 Here is a piece of the first dress I ever saw, cut with what were called ‘mutton-leg’ sleeves. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 417 In..widow Twankey's blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind. † mutton light n. Obsolete = mutton candle n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from mutton-fat mutton fat1723 mutton light1795 mutton1825 mutton candle1842 1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 171 Nay, while a mutton-light remains, A sun with us no credit gains, But yields to ev'ry farthing candle. 1844 Bentley's Misc. 5 Oct. 413 On the table were..two or three tumbler, an end of ‘mutton light’. † mutton-master n. Obsolete rare = mutton-monger n. ΚΠ 1729 L. Theobald Let. 6 Nov. in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1817) II. 254 He is a notable whoremaster, or, as we have it in another vulgar idiom, a mutton-master. † mutton measles n. Veterinary Medicine Obsolete rare a disease of sheep caused by infection with cysticerci. ΚΠ 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mutton measles, the cysticercus of the flesh of the sheep; probably the larval form of Taenia tenella. mutton pie n. a pie made with mutton. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie rafiolea1425 shred-pie1573 Florentine1579 marrowbone pie1595 marrow pie1598 meat pie1607 mutton pie1607 olive pie1615 venison piea1616 flesh-pie1616 veal (and ham) piea1625 godiveau1653 lumber-pie1656 mermaid pie1661 umble-pie1663 humble piea1665 trotter-pie1693 stump pie1695 mugget pie1696 pot-pie1702 squab-pie1708 pork pie1723 steak pie1723 Perigord pie1751 pasticcio1772 fidget pie1790 muggety pie1800 numble pie1822 Florentine pie1823 pastilla1834 kidney-pie1836 beef-steak pie1841 stand pie1872 Melton Mowbray1875 timbale1880 pâté en croûte1929 tourtière1953 growler1989 1607 R. West Gamester in Court of Conscience sig. D3 Tis your guise, To meditate on pots and Mutton pies. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 4 Jan. (1970) III. 3 We had some base rost beefe and a mutton-pie. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 367. ¶4 They [sc. sheets of the Spectator]..make a good Foundation for a Mutton-pye. 1764 Oxf. Sausage 17 Ben Tyrrell, Cook of high Renown, To please the Palates of the Gown, At Three-pence each, makes Mutton-Pies. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 196 An old mutton-pie-man was run over as he was crossing Piccadilly. 1993 Guardian 11 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 54/3 At Barnstaple, you can buy..royal mutton pies and Greek baklava. mutton quad n. Printing slang an em quad. ΚΠ 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 309/2 Mutton Quad, a slang term, in English printing-offices, for em quad. 1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 91 Mutton quad, an em quadrant. † mutton-saddle n. Obsolete rare (probably) a saddle of mutton. ΚΠ 1761 J. Armstrong Day 160 But let me ne'er of mutton-saddle eat. mutton sheep n. a sheep bred for meat, not for wool. ΚΠ 1520 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 191 Dauid Anderson..producit witht twa muttone scheip the said Dauid grantit the sammyn lauchfull. 1842 Ld. Western in J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 380 A request..that I would fairly try how far it was possible, to make them into mutton sheep. 1957 Handbk. Farmers (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) III. 210 A commencement was made in 1940 with the development of the Dormer..as a slaughter-lamb breed. This was done because the German Merino mutton sheep is resistant to Muellerius [sc. lungworm]. mutton snapper n. any of various snapper fishes of the genus Lutjanus; esp. the large, usually pinkish L. analis, of the Caribbean and western Atlantic, distinguished by a black blotch on each side. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 490 Mutton-snapper, a large fish of the Mesoprion genus, frequenting tropical seas. 1867 Trans. Royal Soc. Arts & Agric. 1 25 Mutton snapper, ?Mesoprion campecheanus. 1995 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 7 Nov. 8 c Offshore, bottom fishermen caught some mangrove and mutton snapper in 65–80 feet of water. † mutton tea n. Obsolete a beverage produced from mutton in a similar manner to beef tea. ΚΠ 1786 R. Willan in Med. Communications 2 117 He had this day some mutton tea. 1836 J. Roberts Young Cook's Guide 2 Mutton Tea. Take two pounds of the lean part of a leg of mutton..; put this into a stewpan and cover it with water, and proceed in the same way as directed for beef tea. mutton thumper n. U.S. slang rare an incompetent bookbinder.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Mutton thumper, a bungling bookbinder. † mutton tugger n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a licentious man. ΚΠ c1600 in A. Wood Life (1891–1900) I. 293 [The Oxford colleges are] the nurseries of wickedness, the nests of mutton tuggers, the dens of formall droanes. † mutton-water n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) mutton broth. ΚΠ 1771 Med. Observ. & Inq. IV. 62 She had thrown up some mutton-water which had been prescribed for common drink. muttonwood n. New Zealand any of several daisy bushes with leathery leaves, esp. Olearia colensoi. ΚΠ 1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 205 Olearia Colensoi mutton-wood. Mr Traill informs me that it is the tupari of the Stewart island Natives; it is, however, generally termed ‘mutton-bird wood’, or ‘mutton-wood’ by settlers, on account of its growing on outlying islands frequented by mutton-birds. 1982 H. D. Wilson Stewart Island Plants 102 Pūheretāiko... Muttonwood... Shrub or small tree. 1994 E. Orsman & H. Orsman N.Z. Dict. 300/1 Tupare, any of various native tree daisies possessing leathery leaves, usually Olearia species, especially O. colensoi. Also called muttonwood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). muttonadj. Brit. /ˈmʌtn/, U.S. /ˈmətn/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English mutton jeff , Mutt and Jeff adj. Etymology: Short for mutton jeff, variant (reflecting a colloquial pronunciation) of Mutt and Jeff adj. Compare mutt adj. British slang. Deaf. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [adjective] > deaf deafc825 hearingless1398 deathc1475 as deaf as a door, doorpost, doornail1546 dunch1569 surda1682 nut-deaf1828 stock-deaf1865 soundless1890 stone-eared1895 non-hearing1958 Mutt and Jeff1960 mutt1973 mutton1983 1983 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 3rd Ser. Episode 5. 172 Slater. Oh he dropped it did he? Didn't you call after him?.. Del. Well yeah, but he was a bit mutton, wasn't he? 1991 Guardian 3 July 23/2 You will have to speak up, I'm a bit mutton. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300adj.1983
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muttonadj.