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• The wolfly focus shifted to putting as much real estate as possible between themselves and mutton dinners.2005, Brooks Horsley, Through a Glass Darkly, page 134. From the entry wolfly
• And not just lamb; we're talkin' mutton, old lamb, which has an even deeper, lambier flavor.2003, David Rosengarten, It's All American Food: The Best Recipes for More than 400 New American Classics, unnumbered page. From the entry lamby
• But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun. From the entry tib
• And you can rosify anything from Lucretia Borgia to cold mutton.1919, Compton Mackenzie, Poor Relations, London: Macdonald & Co., published 1949, page 103. From the entry rosify
• For weeks I had breakfasted, lunched, dined, and souped on mutton.1904, H[ans] H[ermann] Behr, “Ethnology”, in The Hoot of the Owl, San Francisco, Calif.: A. M. Robertson, page 104. From the entry soup
• Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry heel
• There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2. From the entry TikTok
• "Mutton flaps are the discarded parts of the lamb that are not fit for consumption in New Zealand.2016 January 18, Katy Watson, Sarah Treanor, “How mutton flaps are killing Tonga”, in BBC News. From the entry mutton flaps
• "Vigilant?" asked the dock tramp, “and what will the mutton shunters be doing whilst we are remaining vigilant?”2016, George Mann -, Associates of Sherlock Holmes. From the entry mutton shunter
• Mutton shunters won't even go in there.2016, Matthew J. Kirby, A Taste for Monsters. From the entry mutton shunter
• Thousands of small birds, Tasmania′s entire population of mutton birds, take flight at the crack of dawn, headed toward Antarctica.2000, Donna Eden, David Feinstein, Brooks Garten, Caroline Myss, Energy Medicine, page 260. From the entry mutton bird
• Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page…. From the entry cabrito
• For years I had heard about the wonderful chicken in the restaurants there, but we had eaten mutton instead.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 152. From the entry lyon
• Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC. From the entry purulent
• The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353. From the entry johnny cake
• George’s mutton chop congealed on the plate untouched.1919 May 17, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191…. From the entry french-fried potatoes
• George's mutton chop congealed on the plate, untouched.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress. From the entry french fried potatoes
• Some of the boys down there still had their rifles and he'd be deader than mutton a second after he started to hooraw the herd.2011, Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West, The Last Manhunt, →ISBN. From the entry hooraw
• And it is heartening to be able to find a good and heady mutton chop to accompany a club member's claret from his private stock.1989 March 12, Christopher Idone, “Food: Club Comfort”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jan 2014. From the entry private stock
• Ho has a very peculiar way of swacking his lips, and frequently talks of a mutton chop, and how he likes it cooked .1985, Hugh Shimmin, Liverpool Life ; The Courts and Alleys of Liverpool, page 106. From the entry swack
• Mutton or chicken curries and various other non-vegetarian dishes are served in the Moslem restaurants and in those labelled in English "Military Hotel."1962, Jean Filliozat, India: The Country and Its Traditions. From the entry military hotel
• A banker walking down the streets with no clothes on would have been quite as nonsensical as a butcher selling man instead of mutton.1929, G. K. Chesterton, The Thing: Why I am a Catholic. From the entry adamitism
• The physiochemical properties and muscle fiber structure of the two mutton groups were compared, and the protein phosphorylation level was studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.2021, Dequan Zhang, Xin Li, Li Chen, Chengli Hou, Zhenyu Wang, chapter 5.2, in Protein Phosphorylation and Meat Quality, page 78. From the entry drip loss
• But mutton busting quickly caught on and is now a staple at rodeos and fairs around the country, and even overseas, despite occasional opposition from animal rights groups.2020 February 1, John MacCormack, “Mutton busting a popular rodeo event for kids in San Antonio and nationwide”, in My San Antonio. From the entry mutton busting
• Spurgeon,” Cary hastily assured her, “which, as I'm sure you must know, allows one to enjoy the taste and appearance of mutton, without risking the old indijaggers.”2013, Tamara Lejeune, Surrender to Sin. From the entry indijaggers
• At other times she would add some precious scrag-end of mutton, and the house would be permeated with a wonderful aroma, delicate and substantial at the same time.2011, Susan Sallis, Rosemary For Remembrance. From the entry scrag-end
• She would giggle silently and nudge the girl next to her, and so it would go; Rocco would be shaking his mutton dagger at every girl in class.2002, Thomas McLoughlin, Soft Hearts and Hard Times: A Boys^([sic]) Life 1921-1941, page 165. From the entry mutton dagger
• The short sweet turfage of the hills renders "Portland mutton" almost as famous as Welsh, while the luxuriance of the vales lends itself to the breeding of fine cattle.1910, Arthur L. Salmon, Dorset, page 6. From the entry vale

Meaning of mutton

1. noun The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
2. noun The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.
3. noun A sheep.

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How do you use mutton in a sentence?

Mutton is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.”

What is a short sentence with mutton?

“Mutton shunters won't even go in there.”

What does mutton mean?

Mutton means the meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.