Mutton

Definition: Mutton

Mutton

Noun

1. Meat from a mature domestic sheep.

2. The square of a body of any size of type.

Date "mutton" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Etymology: Mutton \Mut"ton\, noun. [from Old English expression motoun, Old French moton, molton, sheep, wether, French mouton, Late Latin expression multo, by transposition of from Latin mutilus mutilated. See Mutilate.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Mutton

Domain	Definition
Literature	Mutton (French, mouton). A gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MUTTON. In her mutton, i.e. having carnal knowledge of a woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Mutton

Synonyms: em (n), mouton (n), mut (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mutton

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
Food	Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.
Imbecility Folly	Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mutton

English words defined with "mutton": Braxy, Butcher's meat ♦ Cabob ♦ Exmoor ♦ Giggot ♦ Hampshire, Hampshire down, Hircic ♦ Irish stew ♦ Kitcat ♦ Lincoln ♦ Mutton chop, Muttony ♦ Pillau ♦ rack, Rambouillet ♦ saddle, Scotch broth, shank, suet ♦ Vifda ♦ Welsh mutton. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mutton": BOW-WOW MUTTON ♦ Cut Blocks with a Razor ♦ Haricot Mutton ♦ INSPECTOR, AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES ♦ Kit-cat Club ♦ LACED MUTTON, Leg of Mutton School ♦ Marrow-bones, MUTTON MONGER, Mutton-eating King ♦ Poison of Khaibar, Public-house Signs ♦ Robin Mutton ♦ Safeguards, import, SMASH. (references)

Etymologies containing "mutton": Vifda. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mutton

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Cold meat, mutton pies. (Aeon Flux; writing credit: Mario Sábato)
Movie/TV Titles	Double or Mutton (1955) Much Ado About Mutton (1947) I Got Plenty of Mutton (1944) No Mutton for Nuttin' (1943) Weighing Mutton (1901)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mutton

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Lamb, Mutton, & Goat: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Lamb, Mutton, & Goat: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference) The 2000-2005 Outlook for Lamb, Mutton, and Goat in Asia (reference) The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Lamb, Mutton and Goat (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience Society in Rhod (reference) Johnny Mutton, He's So Him! (reference) Mutton and Oysters: The Victorians and Their Food (reference) The 2000-2005 Outlook for Lamb, Mutton, and Goat in Africa (reference) The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Lamb, Mutton and Goat [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mutton

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Photo Album: Mutton

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Remains of seventy-year old mutton Hanging on wall of Scott's Hut Point Shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Salt and corned mutton - a few staples of the day at Scott's Hut Point shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Mutton snapper hatchery - hatchery production building. Credit: Fisheries.		Aerial view of mutton snapper nursery/hatchery complex. Credit: Fisheries.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Mutton

Title	Author	Quote
Rules and Regulations	Carroll, Lewis	Refuse cold mutton.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mutton

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Pork is the most common meat in the Chinese diet (accounts for around 67.5% of total meat consumption) but beef (8%), mutton (4.5%), and chicken (poultry 20%) are growing in popularity. (references)
Economic History	Uae	The traditional UAE market preference is for lamb, mutton and goat meat. (references)
	Afghanistan	Agriculture (at least 65% of GDP): Products--wheat, corn, barley, rice, cotton, fruit, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, and mutton. (references)
	Pakistan	During 2000, the livestock population increased to 121 million head and Livestock production was as follows: Beef - 986,000 MT, Mutton - 650,000 MT, and Poultry - 325,000 MT. (references)
Trade	Pakistan	These include live animals, beef and mutton, wheat, cotton, rice, arms, ammunition and explosives, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones, poppy seeds, and ferrous and non-ferrous metal. (references)
	Bahamas	In an effort to protect domestic agricultural producers, the Government requires that a permit be granted to import more than 50 pounds of whole chickens or chicken parts, lamb or mutton, or pork legs, shoulders, or hams into The Bahamas. (references)
Travel	Qatar	Mutton figures prominently in the fare of most Qataris. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mutton

"Mutton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "Mutton" is used about 189 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	85.19%	161	24,661
Noun (proper)	14.81%	28	65,706
Total	100.00%	189	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Mutton

The following table summarizes the usage of "mutton" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Mutton	Last name	200	33,186
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mutton

Expressions using "mutton": a leg of mutton ♦ as dead as mutton ♦ cut of mutton ♦ eat one's mutton with smb. ♦ Laced mutton ♦ leg of mutton ♦ mutton bird ♦ mutton chop ♦ mutton cloth ♦ mutton dressed up as lamb ♦ mutton fish ♦ mutton fist ♦ mutton head ♦ mutton monger ♦ mutton quad ♦ mutton roasted on the spit ♦ mutton snapper ♦ mutton stew ♦ mutton tallow ♦ roast mutton ♦ saddle of mutton ♦ scrag end of mutton ♦ welsh mutton. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mutton": mutton-bird, mutton-chop, mutton-chopped, mutton-chops, mutton-fish, mutton-headed, mutton-ish, mutton-tops.
	Ending with "mutton": cold-mutton, ewe-mutton, Leg-of-mutton, leg-o'-mutton.
	Containing "mutton": Shoulder-of-mutton sail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mutton

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mutton	102	creek marina mutton	4
lamb and mutton	20	bar mutton window	3
fat mutton	19	bar make mutton new wooden	3
mutton bird	13	bird hotel island mutton	2
mutton snapper	12	bar mutton	2
chop mutton	9	mutton tallow	2
bustin mutton	8	mutton window	2
mutton recipe	7	lamb mutton recipe	2
biryani mutton	7	bird lyrics mutton	2
busting mutton	6	indian mutton recipe	2
curry mutton	5	graeme mutton	2
equipment mutton power	5	creek mutton	2
		mutton stew	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mutton

Language		Translations for "mutton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		skaapvleis. (various references)

Albanian		mish deleje, deleje. (various references)

Arabic		‏لحم الضأن, ‏ضأني. (various references)

Breton		kig-maout. (various references)

Bulgarian		овца (ewe, sheep), овнешко месо (red meat), овнешки (rammish). (various references)

Chamorro		katnen kinilu. (various references)

Chinese		羊肉 . (various references)

Cornish		kýk-davas. (various references)

Czech		skopové maso. (various references)

Danish		fårekød (ewe mutton). (various references)

Dutch		schapevlees (ewe mutton). (various references)

Esperanto		ŝafaĵo. (various references)

Farsi		گوسفند. (various references)

Finnish		lammas (sheep). (various references)

French		mouton. (various references)

Frisian		skiepfleis. (various references)

German		Hammelfleisch (wether mutton), hammel (ass, castrated ram, muttons, sheep, wether, wethers). (various references)

Greek		πρόβειο κρέασ, αρνίσιο κρέασ. (various references)

Hebrew		בשר כבש. (various references)

Hungarian		birkahús, ürühús. (various references)

Indonesian		daging domba. (various references)

Irish		caoireoil. (various references)

Italian		carne di montone (ewe mutton, wether mutton). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		羊肉 (lamb), マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, sailor), � コ多糖類 (badger, maker, maker option, meuniere, monsieur, mucopolysaccharide, mulatto, Mussolini, mustang, sheep, thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		マトン , � トン (sheep), ようにく (lamb). (various references)

Korean		양� 기. (various references)

Manx		muiltchin, mohlt (castrated sheep, wether), feill vohlt. (various references)

Norwegian		fårekjøtt, får (sheep). (various references)

Papago		kahwal chuhkug. (various references)

Papiamen		karni di karné. (various references)

Pig Latin		uttonmay

Portuguese		carne de carneiro (wether mutton). (various references)

Romanian		carne de oaie, carne de berbec. (various references)

Romany		barkanò. (various references)

Russian		баранина. (various references)

Scottish		muiltfheoil. (various references)

Sepedi		nama ya nku. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ovčiji, ovčetina. (various references)

Shona		nyama yehwai. (various references)

Spanish		carnero (ram, tup, wether). (various references)

Swedish		fårkött (ewe mutton, wether mutton). (various references)

Turkish		koyun eti. (various references)

Ukrainian		баранина. (various references)

Vietnamese		ngu đần (beef-witted, boeotian, dense, doltish, dull, dully, mutton-headed, nitwitted, stupid, witless), người ngu đần (beetle-brain, boeotian, dolt, dullard, log-head, looby, mutton-head, nitwit, stupid). (various references)

Welsh		molltgig, cig gwedder. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mutton

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	moton. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mutton

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mutton": muttonchops, muttonfish, muttonfishes, muttons, muttony. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mutton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gutton, hutton, lutton, maton, Matton, mattonn, metaton, meton, metto, Metton, mitjorn, mitto, mitton, Mittoo, Moton, motton, muddon, Muito, munton, Muston, Mustow, mutator, mutin, Mutloe, muton, muttan, mutten, mutti, muttin, Mutuo, Myton, Mytton, Natton, Netton, Notton, Nutten, nuttos, Nuytten, putton, uton. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mutton"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mutton" (pronounced mu"tun)
4	-u" t u n	button, unbutton.
3	-t u n	actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mutton

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "m-n-o-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: mount, muton, notum.
	-2 letters: mott, muon, mutt, tout, unto.
	-3 letters: mon, mot, mun, mut, nom, not, nut, out, tom, ton, tot, tun, tut.
	-4 letters: mo, mu, no, nu, om, on, to, um, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "m-n-o-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: muttons, muttony.
	+2 letters: multiton, mutation, tautonym, tomentum.
	+3 letters: antitumor, automaton, catamount, misbutton, multitone, mutations, nonmutant, strontium, tautonyms, tautonymy.
	+4 letters: amputation, automating, automation, automatons, autonomist, catamounts, imputation, maturation, misbuttons, mutational, mutilation, muttonfish, natatorium, nonmutants, strontiums, stuntwoman, stuntwomen, tantamount, tournament.
	+5 letters: amputations, antitumoral, automations, autonomists, commutating, commutation, computation, cottonmouth, countermyth, importunate, importunity, imputations, maturations, micturition, misbuttoned, mistutoring, mountaintop, multicounty, multination, multiphoton, multipiston, mutilations, muttonchops, natatoriums, outmatching, outsmarting, outtrumping, permutation, portmanteau, stimulation, tautonymies, tournaments, tumefaction, unautomated, uncommitted, unimportant, unmotivated.
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