mutton

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌtn̩/, [ˈmʌʔn̩]

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mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)

1. The flesh of sheep used as food.
2. (archaic) A sheep.
3. (typography slang) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
4. (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
5. (historical) An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mutton.

• (meat of a sheep): sheepflesh, sheepmeat

• (meat of a sheep): lamb

• mutton bird
• mutton dressed as lamb

mutton (not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

• Mutton Jeff

• Wikipedia article on mutton

mutton

1. Alternative form of motoun