Mustard is a yellow or brown paste usually eaten with meat. It tastes hot and spicy.
...a pot of mustard.
Thinly paint the lamb with Dijon mustard.
2. uncountable noun
Mustard is a small plant with yellow flowers. The seeds can be used to make mustard.
3. colour
Mustard is used to describe things that are brownish-yellow in colour.
...a mustard-coloured jumper.
4.
See to cut the mustard
5.
See as keen as mustard/ mustard keen
mustard in British English
(ˈmʌstəd)
noun
1.
any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Brassica, esp black mustard and white mustard, having yellow or white flowers and slender pods and cultivated for their pungent seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
See also charlock
2.
a paste made from the powdered seeds of any of these plants and used as a condiment
3.
a.
a brownish-yellow colour
b.
(as adjective)
a mustard carpet
4. slang, mainly US
zest or enthusiasm
5. cut the mustard
Word origin
C13: from Old French moustarde, from Latin mustummust2, since the original condiment was made by adding must
mustard in American English
(ˈmʌstərd)
noun
1.
any of several annual herbs (genus Brassica) of the crucifer family, with yellow flowers and slender pods containing round seeds
2.
the ground or powdered seeds of some species (as Brassica nigra) of these plants, often prepared as a paste, used as a pungent seasoning for foods, or as a counterirritant in medicine
3.
the color of ground mustard, a dark yellow
Idioms:
cut the mustard
Word origin
ME mustarde < OFr moustarde < moust, must < L mustum (see must3): orig. prepared with must as an ingredient