mutton

English

Etymology

From Old French mouton ‎(“sheep”), from Gaulish moltus, *moltos, from Proto-Celtic *moltos ‎(“ram, wether”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌtn̩/, [ˈmʌʔn̩]

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Noun

mutton ‎(countable and uncountable, plural muttons)

1. The flesh of sheep used as food.
2. (typography slang) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
3. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:mutton.

Synonyms

• (meat of a sheep): sheepflesh, sheepmeat

Hyponyms

• (meat of a sheep): lamb

Translations

the flesh of sheep used as food

• Arabic: لَحْم اَلضَّأْن m ‎(laḥm aḍ-ḍaʾn)

  Egyptian Arabic: ضاني f ‎(ḍaani)

• Armenian: ոչխարի միս ‎(očʿxari mis)
• Belarusian: бараніна f ‎(baránina)
• Burmese: သိုးသား (my) ‎(sui:sa:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羊肉 ‎(joeng⁴ juk⁶)

  Mandarin: 羊肉 (zh) ‎(yángròu)

  Min Nan: 羊肉 (zh-min-nan) ‎(iûⁿ-bah)

• Czech: skopové n
• Dalmatian: carnual
• Dutch: schapenvlees (nl) n, schaap (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝafaĵo
• Estonian: lambaliha (et)
• Finnish: lammas (fi), lampaanliha (fi)
• French: mouton (fr) m
• Friulian: cjastrât m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schaffleisch (de) n, Hammel (de) m, Hammelfleisch (de) n, Schöpsenfleisch n, Schöpserne n
• Greek: πρόβειο κρέας n ‎(próveio kréas)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ürühús (hu)
• Icelandic: kindakjöt (is) n
• Irish: caoireoil f
• Japanese: 羊肉 (ja) ‎(ようにく, yōniku)

• Norman: mouton m
• Khmer: សាច់ចៀម ‎(sac ciəm)
• Korean: 양고기 (ko) ‎(yanggogi)
• Lithuanian: aviena f
• Macedonian: овчо n ‎(óvčo)
• Malay: daging kambing
• Maori: mātene, mīti hipi
• Mongolian: хонины мах ‎(honiny mah)
• Polish: baranina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carneiro (pt) m
• Romanian: oaie (ro) f
• Russian: бара́нина (ru) f ‎(baránina)
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-chaorach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: овчетина f

  Roman: ovčetina (sh) f

• Sindhi: تور ‎(teevar)
• Spanish: carnero (es) m
• Swahili: nyama ya kondoo
• Swedish: fårkött (sv) n
• Tagalog: karning-tupa
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เนื้อแกะ
• Turkish: koyun eti (tr)
• Ukrainian: баранина (uk) f ‎(barányna)
• Volapük: jipamit, hojipamit
• Walloon: moton m, bedot (wa) m

Derived terms

• mutton bird
• mutton dressed as lamb

Adjective

mutton ‎(not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

Synonyms

• Mutton Jeff

See also

• Wikipedia article on mutton