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/mˈətən tʃɑp/ Listen

noun

Mutton n.

A sheep. (Obs.) "Not so much ground as will feed a mutton." "Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds."

The flesh of a sheep. "The fat of roasted mutton or beef."

A loose woman; a prostitute. (Obs.)

Mutton bird (Zool.), the Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus).

Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off.

Mutton fish (Zool.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout.

Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. (Colloq.)

Mutton monger, a pimp. (Low & Obs.)

To return to one's muttons. To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. (Humorous) "I willingly return to my muttons."

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"Mutton chop" Quotes from Famous Books

... Atheistic ground in that department; though a few of that class are willing to believe that some other department of science, of which they have no personal knowledge, favors Infidelity. Even Huxley, with all his nonsense about the identical composition of the protoplasm of the mutton chop, and that of the lecturer, denies, and disproves, spontaneous generation, and votes in the London School Board for the reading of the Bible. The leading Infidel writers, such as Comte and Spencer, ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... and milk unless they were set down for him in his especial corner upon the hearth. He took his airings on the window-ledge where the sun slanted in of a morning, beside the very brown paper parcel in which was wrapped the mutton chop for dinner; he never touched the cheese upon the table, though he knew the word "cheese" as well as if he could spell it, and would stand up tall on his hind paws to receive his morsel when he was told, even in a whisper, ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... 9th, and the 10th is my surviving daughter's birth-day. I have ordered, as a regale, a mutton chop and a bottle of ale. She is seven years old, I believe. Did I ever tell you that the day I came of age I dined on eggs and bacon and a bottle of ale? For once in a way they are my favourite dish and drinkable, but as neither of them agree with me, I never use them but ...

— Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5 (of 6) • (Lord Byron) George Gordon Byron