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muttonhood

noun

Etymology

From mutton + -hood.

  1. derived from *moltos✻
  2. derived from *multon-✻
  3. derived from moltō
  4. derived from mouton
  5. inherited from motoun
  6. suffixed as muttonhood — “mutton + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state or period of being an adult sheep.

    • […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.
    • […] everything, it seemed, was lamb because lambs presumably did not have the chance to reach muttonhood.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA