Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.

    Schaffleisch, Hammel, Hammelfleisch

    бара́нинаbaránina

    бара́нинаbarányna

    meat from a mature domestic sheep

  2. (countable, uncountable)The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.

  3. (countable, slang, uncountable)Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

  4. (countable, historical, uncountable)An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

  5. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A sheep.

  6. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A prostitute.

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Save me some of that mutton.

    deLass mir was von dem Hammel übrig!

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  2. Save some of that mutton for me.

    deLass mir was von dem Hammel übrig!

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  3. When was the last time you ate mutton?

    ruКогда ты в последний раз ела баранину?

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  4. I prefer mutton to beef.

    deIch esse lieber Lamm als Rind.

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  5. He is a mutton-headed old mugwump.

    Він старе пришелепкувате велике цабе.

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Translations

9 languages
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the flesh of sheep used as food:

Origin

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin mol

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.

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