MUTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutton mean? 

• MUTTON (noun)
  The noun MUTTON has 1 sense:

1. meat from a mature domestic sheep

  Familiarity information: MUTTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat from a mature domestic sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

mouton; mutton

Hypernyms ("mutton" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Holonyms ("mutton" is a part of...):

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

 Context examples 

Uncle rushed out and bought a pair of dogskin gloves, some ugly, thick shoes, and an umbrella, and got shaved à la mutton chop, the first thing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They never had been opened; and we had no oyster-knives—and couldn't have used them if we had; so we looked at the oysters and ate the mutton.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Nay, I shall go! I shall go!” said Alleyne hurriedly, as Hordle John began to slowly roll up his sleeve, and bare an arm like a leg of mutton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A turkey, or a goose, or a leg of mutton, or whatever you and your cook chuse to give us.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer’s house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I removed the sprit, tightly hauling down the peak of the sail, and we raced along under what sailors call a leg-of-mutton.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had one of the meat-tins between his knees, and sat with a large piece of cold Australian mutton between his fingers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Great rounds of beef, saddles of mutton, smoking tongues, veal and ham pies, turkeys and chickens, and geese, with every variety of vegetables, and a succession of fiery cherries and heavy ales were the main staple of the feast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)