mutton

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It is shoulder of mutton, and very different stuff from the mutton which they cook in noble kitchens--mutton which has been kicking about the market-place four days or more.

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  1. noun The flesh of fully grown sheep.

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  • But the unrest and worry of her look left rather a disturbed impression on the beholder She sat at the head of the table and carved a leg of mutton, and saw Anna putting vegetables upon the children's plates under silent protest She did not believe in meat. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • Serve immediately MUTTON BROTH Remove pink skin from mutton, also fat; have the meat from the neck. —  The Community Cook Book
  • It was not unlady-like to eat cold mutton, and she ate it. —  Miss Mackenzie
  • We'll take the adult mutton, and go the whole hog ... And if we lose, the tail'll have to go with the hide.... But we won't lose, Al, we won't lose. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • The boy that wins the leg of mutton will be the hero of the fair, and be carried round the place on the shoulders of the men. —  The Royal Picture Alphabet
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  1. Middle English, from Old French mouton, moton, from Medieval Latin multō, multōn-, of Celtic origin; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English moton, motoun, mutoun, motone, molton, multon, from Old French moton, mouton, multon, molton, French mouton = Provencal multo, molto, moto = Italian montone = Catalan molto= Italian montone, dial. moltone, from Middle Latin multo(n-), molto(n-), monto(n-). montonus, a wether, a sheep, also a coin so called; cf. Irish molt = Gaelic mult = Manx mult = Welsh mollt = Breton maout, meut, a wether, sheep; the Celtic words are apparently not orig., but from the Middle Latin; the Middle Latin may be connected with modern Provencal mout, Swiss mot, mutt, castrated, mutilated (cf. modern Provencal cabro mouto, a goat deprived of its horns, Latin capra mutila); prob. from Latin mutilus, maimed, mutilated. In this view Middle Latin multo(n-), molto(n-) was orig. a castrated ram or, less prob., a ram deprived of its horns: a rustic word displacing the common L. aries, a ram, and extended to mean ‘sheep in general.’
 

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