mutton chop
- noun
- /ˈmʌtən tʃɑp/
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- The actor wore distinctive mutton chops for his role in the historical drama.
Examples
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Victorian gentlemen were often famous for their impressive mutton chop whiskers.
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Do you like the mutton chops style?
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He decided to grow mutton chops to change up his appearance.
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He sported a thick mutton chop beard.
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He decided to grow mutton chops to change up his appearance.
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The actor wore distinctive mutton chops for his role in the historical drama.
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Victorian gentlemen were often famous for their impressive mutton chop whiskers.
Synonyms
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4.3
A strip of hair on each side of the face in front of the ear
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1.0
Hair that grows on the face, like a beard or mustache
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9.9
A strip of hair along the face beside the ears with the chin shaved
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5.3
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and reach the jaw
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Hair grown on the sides of the face in front of the ears
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1.0
Hair that grows on a man's cheeks and chin
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7.9
A strip of hair on each side of a man's face in front of the ears
Facial hair that grows thick along the jaw and down the cheeks
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and join along the jaw, with no mustache
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Surface Forms
Morphology
mutton + chop
Though formed from 'mutton' (sheep meat) + 'chop' (a cut of meat), the sense 'style of facial hair' is a metaphorical, culture-specific extension based on visual resemblance and cannot be predicted from the literal meanings; a B1 learner who knows the constituents would most likely interpret it as a meat dish. The idiomatic facial-hair meaning is therefore not transparently derivable and requires prior exposure.
Etymology
The name mutton chop for 'facial hair' comes from a simple picture: the thick whiskers at the side of the face look like a mutton chop, a piece of sheep meat. So the term came to mean that style of sideburns.