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  • Mutton is normally a ewe of over 24 months. a wether a nuts off male.

    Kati Roll Now Offers Delivery, Introduces Strange New Menu | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

  • Mutton is normally something to be avoided, but when done right, it’s damn good.

    Matthew Yglesias » America The Beautiful 2010

  • By the way, is it me, or does "Mutton" have unusually little dialogue for an early '40s cartoon?

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Greg Ford mentions on his commentary for "Mutton" that Tashlin also wrote this gag, uncredited, into "Mickey and the Beanstalk," but I haven't seen that in a while.

    Never Waste A Gag Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • By the way, is it me, or does "Mutton" have unusually little dialogue for an early '40s cartoon?

    Never Waste A Gag Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Greg Ford mentions on his commentary for "Mutton" that Tashlin also wrote this gag, uncredited, into "Mickey and the Beanstalk," but I haven't seen that in a while.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • "Mutton," answered she, "so I don t ask you to eat any, because I know you despise it.",

    Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney 1842

  • After Eugene "Mutton" Lewis, a convicted drug dealer who said he'd bought votes for decades, testified about a candidate giving him $1,000 and asking for help, a defense attorney asked if there weren't ways to help a candidate besides buying votes.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2010

  • “Her black, two-year-old Labrador is called Mutton, as in Cockney rhyming slang, because when he was a puppy, you could scream yourself hoarse telling him not to do something, and he wouldn’t take a blind bit of notice.

    Conferences are Murder McDermid, Val 1999

  • U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves reduced the sentences of Richard Todd Roberts, a former assistant police chief; Vernon Hacker, a former Manchester city council member and director of the local 911 system; Kenneth Day, who had been a Republican election commissioner; Jennings B. White, who served two terms as county clerk; and Eugene "Mutton" Lewis, a longtime vote-buyer.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2010

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