mutton

Meanings

Noun

• The flesh of sheep used as food.
• The flesh of goat used as food.
• A sheep.
• Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
• A prostitute.
• An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

Adjective

• deaf.

Related

Similar words

• sheepflesh, sheepmeat
• Mutton Jeff

Narrower meaning words

• lamb

Origin

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