mutton

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

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

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   meat from a mature domestic sheep

5. 5
   noun

   A sheep.

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   A prostitute.

8. 8
   noun

   An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

Etymology

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.