mutton
UK/ˈmʌt(ə)n/
mutton noun: the meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
Noun
mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)
- The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
- Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 161
- Synonyms:
- sheepflesh, sheepmeat
- The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.
- This prejudice against goat mutton is founded upon ignorance rather than experience. The most ill-smelling “billy” of the worst possible type is made the standard of goat flesh for the whole goat family.1903, George Fayette Thompson, A Manual of Angora Goat Raising: With a Chapter on Milch Goats, page 96
- Generally urial mutton is excellent in spite of their strongly scented food, especially if the beasts are young. Their skins are valueless even to the Dard, who can turn most things to some account, and so one commonly finds them [discarded].1910, Roger Lloyd Kennion, Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya, page 89
- A sheep.
- Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
- A prostitute.
- Synonyms:
- laced mutton
- An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
Adjective
mutton (not comparable)
- deaf.
- He's been a bit mutton in one ear for a long time; not due to my mother, but as a result of all the years spent working in a noisy car factory.2009, Alan Smithie, Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!, page 67
- Synonyms:
- Mutton Jeff
Proper noun capitalized: Mutton
Mutton
- A surname.
mutton meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mutton in Hindi
- मटन
mutton in Tamil
- the flesh of sheep used as food
- ஆட்டிறைச்சி āṭṭiṟaicci, ஆட்டுக்கறி āṭṭukkaṟi
mutton in Urdu
- مٹن
More languagesFewer languages
- mutton in Bengali
- ভেড়া bheṛa
- mutton in Telugu
- నీసు nīsu
- mutton in Malayalam
- മട്ടൻ maṭṭaṉ
- mutton in Kannada
- ಕುರಿಯ ಮಾಂಸ, ಕುರಿಬಾಡು
- mutton in Punjabi
- ਮਟਨ
- mutton in Gujarati
- મટન maṭan
- mutton in Odia
- ମଟନ
- mutton in Tagalog
- karning-tupa
- mutton in Arabic
- لَحْم اَلضَّأْن laḥm aḍ-ḍaʔn
- mutton in Malay
- daging kambing
- mutton in Thai
- เนื้อแกะ
- mutton in Myanmar
- သိုးသား sui:sa:
- Sindhi
- تور teevar
Examples of mutton in a sentence
- The mutton from goats is not considered nearly as good as mutton from sheep.1916, Frank Duane Gardner, Successful Farming; a Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for Farmers of the United States and Canada...
- Finley Gilchrist / We have used goat mutton for three years.1920, Angora and Milk Goat Journal, page 13:
- ( 2 ) Goat mutton means meat derived from the carcasses of goats. ( b ) Ceiling prices.1951, Code of Federal Regulations: 1949-1984, page 1036:
- The choice was beef from water buffalo, and mutton from goats.2006, Pauline A. Brown, Jars of Clay: Ordinary Christians on an Extraordinary Mission in Southern Pakistan, Doorlight Publications, →ISBN...
Synonyms of mutton
Forms of mutton
| plural | muttons |
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Origin of mutton
From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.
Words formed from mutton
- leg-of-mutton fist
- leg-of-mutton sleeve
- leg-o'-mutton sleeve
- macon
- mutton bird
- mutton busting
- muttonchop
- mutton chop
- mutton-chop whiskers
- mutton dagger
- mutton dash
- mutton dressed as lamb
- mutton dressed up as lamb
- mutton fat
- muttonfish
- mutton fist
- mutton-fisted
- mutton flaps
- muttongrass
- mutton ham
- muttonhead
- muttonheaded
- muttonhood
- muttonish
- muttonmonger
- mutton quad
- mutton shunter
- mutton snapper
- mutton-thumper
- muttonwood
- muttony
- poor man of mutton
- reestit mutton
- shoulder-of-mutton sail
- underground mutton
Phrases with mutton
Words that rhyme with mutton
Questions about mutton
- What does mutton mean?
- Mutton means the meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
- What is mutton in Hindi?
- Mutton in Hindi is मटन. See Mutton meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mutton in a sentence?
- The mutton from goats is not considered nearly as good as mutton from sheep.
- What part of speech is mutton?
- Mutton can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mutton?
- Mutton is pronounced /ˈmʌt(ə)n/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mutton?
- The plural of mutton is muttons.
Words near mutton in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mutton (page history and authors); Mutton (page history and authors); mutton (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mutton (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mutton (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); മട്ടൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mutton (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mutton (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); મટન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); mutton (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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