Mutton
['mʌt(ə)n] or ['mʌtn]
Definition
(n.) A sheep.
(n.) The flesh of a sheep.
(n.) A loose woman; a prostitute.
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Examples
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now Sophia, it so chanced, was fond of a slice of mutton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Mr. Malone, can you cook a mutton chop? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At one time, the beef was too large, at another the mutton was not fat enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Some mutton was shipped to me from the Falkland Islands at the beginning of last August; a piece of it is uncooked on the table. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A little English beef and mutton will soon make a difference. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mutton-chops and sin is good enough living for them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There's roast mutton and suet-pudding waiting for you! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I exhibit two shoulders of mutton, one cooked, the other raw; they are from sheep killed Jan. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mutton broth, I believe, Sir Pitt, answered Lady Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Secondly, Lord Berwick threw a large, hot leg of mutton at his well-powdered footman's head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And then, having yourselves thus lessened our encouragement for raising sheep, you curse us for the scarcity of mutton! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But to return to our muttons, Lucy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Why don't you ride and tye regularly with your two muttons, said I, when you want to be economical? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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