mutton

Examples

• All

• Your dinner is in the oven: mutton stew with potatoes and plenty of onion.

• My sweet, sweet girl, tomorrow I'll bring you something even nicer to eat, maybe some mutton cutlets.

  Fiction book (1992)

• They just have to stand there while I discuss the recipe for the mutton pie.

  The Jonathan Ross Show

• The smell of popcorn and roast mutton made her stomach growl.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Your dinner is in the oven: mutton stew with potatoes and plenty of onion.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Charlotte had an excellent dinner ready: rich mutton stewed with potatoes and sweet white turnip, flavored with rosemary.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Indulge in sizzling chicken, hickory-smoked ribs, and roasted mutton at this cook-off competition.

• Normally Anna didn't care for mutton, but the way Consuelo made it was wonderful.

Synonyms

M

meat

vsmutton

∞ 1.0

The flesh of animals that people eat

is specifically the flesh of a mature sheep not any animal

M

mouton

vsmutton

• UK

1 9.9

Meat from an older sheep that people cook

is the same meaning but uses a different term or form

M

mutton chop

vsmutton

1 5.1

A cut of meat from an adult sheep, cooked like a steak

is the broader meat name not limited to that specific piece

M

mutton chops

vsmutton

1 3.9

Pieces of sheep meat, usually from the ribs, cooked and served as a meal

is the general adult sheep flesh rather than particular served pieces

C

cut of mutton

vsmutton

6.8

A piece of meat from an adult sheep that people cook and eat

is the general name for the whole adult sheep flesh not just a portion

Idioms

M

mutton dressed as lamb

• Slur

9.5

An older person who tries to look much younger in an awkward way

Compounds

M

mutton chops

1 5.3

Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and reach the jaw

M

mutton chops

1 3.9

Pieces of sheep meat, usually from the ribs, cooked and served as a meal

M

mutton chop

1 5.1

A cut of meat from an adult sheep, cooked like a steak

C

cut of mutton

6.8

A piece of meat from an adult sheep that people cook and eat

M

mutton chop

8.2

Facial hair where long sideburns run down the face in front of the ears

M

mutton quad

• Archaic

9.9

A square metal block used to make space in letterpress printing

M

mutton snapper

• US

7.3

A medium-sized red sea fish from the Atlantic that people sell for food

M

mutton tallow

9.1

Fat from an adult sheep used for cooking, soap, and candles

U

underground mutton

• UK

9.9

Meat from sheep that people buy and sell secretly

How Young

lamb

133 1.0

hogget

• UK

9.9

mutton

20 2.8

Surface Forms

Etymology