Read full poem →An olive, capers, or some bitter salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Dictionary Entry
The flesh of sheep used as food.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. muttonchops muttonchop muttonfat muttonmutton roastmutton coldmutton boiled
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Poetry examples for “mutton”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →had gotten a little bag of curry powder and a great
choice chunk of mutton, and she was preparing to make
a feast. i"
Read full poem →Exasperated grown beyond control,
From waiting for his soup or fish or mutton.
At last the station’s reached, the engine stops;
Read full poem →And bushes close in snow-like hovel warm;
There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,
And the half-wasted dog squats close and rubs,
Read full poem →But, hang it! to poets, who seldom can eat,
Your very good mutton's a very good treat;
Such dainties to them their health it might hurt;
Read full poem →In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir,
To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,
Read full poem →In short, ’twas his fate, unemploy’d, or in place, Sir,
To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Read full poem →But hang it—to poets who seldom can eat,
Your very good mutton’s a very good treat;
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt,
Read full poem →hand measure; drafting a sleeve pattern; tracing and cut-
ting the sleeve; shirt waist sleeve; Leg O’Mutton sleeve;
Bishop sleeve; Mousquetaire sleeve; elbow sleeve.