mutton

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌtn̩/, [ˈmʌʔn̩]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌtən

Noun

mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)

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

Quotations

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

Synonyms

• (meat of a sheep): sheepflesh, sheepmeat

Hyponyms

• (meat of a sheep): lamb

Derived terms

• mutton bird
• mutton dressed as lamb

Translations

the flesh of sheep used as food

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

  Egyptian Arabic: ضاني‎ f (ḍānī)

  Moroccan Arabic: غنمي‎ m (ḡanmi)

• Armenian: ոչխարի միս (očʿxari mis)
• Belarusian: бара́ніна 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)

• Cornish: kig davas m
• 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 (de) n
• Greek: πρόβειο κρέας n (próveio kréas)
• Hebrew: טָלֶה‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: ürühús (hu), birkahús (hu), juhhús (hu), birka (hu), ürü (hu)
• Icelandic: kindakjöt (is) n
• Irish: caoireoil f
• Italian: carne ovina f
• Japanese: 羊肉 (ja) (ようにく, yōniku)
• Khmer: សាច់ចៀម (sac ciəm)

• Korean: 양고기 (ko) (yanggogi)
• Latin: ovilla f
• Lithuanian: aviena f
• Macedonian: овчо n (ovčo)
• Malay: daging kambing
• Maori: mātene, mīti hipi
• Middle English: motoun
• Mongolian: хонины мах (honiny mah)
• Norman: mouton m
• Pennsylvania German: Hammelfleesch n, Schoffleesch n
• 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: cordero (es) m
• Swahili: nyama ya kondoo
• Swedish: fårkött (sv) n
• Tagalog: karning-tupa
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เนื้อแกะ (th)
• Turkish: koyun eti (tr)
• Ukrainian: бара́нина (uk) f (barányna)
• Volapük: jipamit
• Walloon: moton (wa) m, bedot (wa) m
• Welsh: cig dafad, cig mollt m, cig gwedder m

Adjective

mutton (not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

Synonyms

• Mutton Jeff

See also

• Wikipedia article on mutton

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Middle English

Noun

mutton

1. Alternative form of motoun