mut

¹ American  

[muht] / mʌt /

noun

1. mutt.

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mut ² American  

[muht] / mʌt /

noun

Printing.

1. mutton.

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mut. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. mutilated.

2. mutual.

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mut British  

/ mʌt /

noun

1. printing another word for em

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Etymology

Origin of mut

By shortening

Example Sentences

A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.

From Salon

When Cahaya learned about nikah mut’ah, she had already been married once — at 13 to a classmate from her village.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead nikah mut’ah has grown into an industry, with an extensive network of brokers, officiants and recruiters that thrives in the gray zone between church and state.

From Los Angeles Times

A type of Muslim marriage, a mut’ah contract joins a couple for a fixed time period.

From New York Times

Although my partner likes to tease that she would have negotiated a better dowry for our daughter than the symbolic gift bag proffered — an anthropologist, she was the only person in the family familiar with mut’ah contract before it was proposed — she was genuinely disappointed, on the day of the impromptu wedding, that I hadn’t insisted on her presence.

From New York Times