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# mutton

«mutton» in Mova's school dictionary: **Meat from an adult sheep, older than lamb, with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mutton — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Meat from an adult sheep, older than lamb, with a stronger taste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#m1)

2) In the saying «mutton dressed as lamb» (UK, informal, unkind): an older person dressed in clothes made for much younger people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#m2)

3) Mutton head is an informal, unkind way to call someone stupid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In food lessons and stories, mutton is used in stews, curries (mutton curry is common in South Asian cooking) and in old recipes like Irish stew and Scotch broth. In history, mutton was a cheap everyday meat. Phrases: «mutton stew», «mutton curry», «leg of mutton», «mutton chop», «mutton dressed as lamb».

### examples

- Grandma made a mutton stew with potatoes and carrots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x1)
- Mutton comes from older sheep and lamb from young ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x2)
- The restaurant sells spicy mutton curry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x3)
- In the old story the farmer ate bread and cold mutton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x4)
- Mutton takes a long time to cook so it gets tender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x5)
- «Mutton chops» are also long sideburns on a man's face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x6)
- It is rude to say someone looks like mutton dressed as lamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x7)
- Can it be a crime to eat sheep, such stupid mutton heads? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «some mutton», not «a mutton». Lamb = young sheep's meat; mutton = adult sheep's meat; hogget = in between. In some countries (India, Pakistan) «mutton» can also mean goat meat. «Mutton chops» = a cut of meat or a style of whiskers.

### In the corpora

- [After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mutton» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mutton/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.