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muttony

adj

Etymology

From mutton + -y.

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

Definitions

  1. Like mutton

    Like mutton; having a flavour of mutton.

    • I confess to having felt a prejudice against sleeping in a bag, more especially a sheepskin bag, which would probably have a muttony odor; but it was pronounced to be the warmest and least cumbersome form of bedding we could have […]

The neighborhood

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