mutton — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

against, cheap, excellent, expensive, fat, green, growing, juicy

VERB + MUTTON

ate, beef, bit, curried, demand, dish, gnawed, grow

MUTTON + NOUN

beard, caraway, ear, giblets, i'm, nowadays, owner

PREP.

from, in, upon, with

ADV.

furiously, generally, often

Definitions

noun

1

The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.

Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.

2

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.

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].

3

A sheep.

4

Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

5

A prostitute.

adj

1

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.

name

1

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — meat from a mature domestic sheep

mouton

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

laced mutton

A prostitute.

A fine laced mutton, Or two; and either has her frisking husband

Example Bank

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01

Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.

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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 fami

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03

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, a

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04

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.

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05

I prefer mutton to beef.

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06

When was the last time you ate mutton?

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Usage Notes

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