mutton
noun
the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
muttony
-
a word derived from
mutton.
Example Sentences
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Red Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because you have the innocence of a lamb, you have a corresponding muttony intelligence.”
From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
Some of the oil of the wool is in it and makes it taste muttony and bad.
From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle
All sheep cheese is oily, some of it a bit muttony, but none of it at all tallowy.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton
