mutton
pronunciation
How to pronounce mutton in British English:
UK [ˈmʌtn]
How to pronounce mutton in American English:
US [ˈmʌtn]
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- Noun:
- meat from a mature domestic sheep
- the square of a body of any size of type
Word Origin
- mutton (n.)
- "flesh of sheep used as food," late 13c., from Old French moton "mutton; ram, wether, sheep" (12c., Modern French mouton), from Medieval Latin multonem (8c.), probably from Gallo-Roman *multo-s, accusative of Celtic *multo "sheep" (cognates: Old Irish molt "wether," Mid-Breton mout, Welsh mollt); the same word also was borrowed into Italian as montone "a sheep." Transferred slang sense of "food for lust, loose women, prostitutes" (1510s) led to extensive British slang uses down to the present day for woman variously regarded as seeking lovers or as lust objects. Mutton chop is from 1720; as a style of side whiskers, from 1865.
Example
- 1. If we can get a little mutton that is the best we can hope for .
- 2. Its mutton , for example , comes from sheep raised on the relatively unpolluted mongolian plains .
- 3. In 2010 , australian rams began selling for more than $ 100 a head for the first time in history as dwindling stocks sent mutton prices soaring .
- 4. Over mutton with rice , naan bread and the ubiquitous cups of chai , we then established that they were not gangsters .
- 5. Pabda fish in mustard sauce is 120 rupees ; a lunch of dal , a vegetable , rice and a bowl of mutton curry is 100 rupees .