Skip to main content

mutton

/muht-n/US // ˈmʌt n //UK // (ˈmʌtən) //

羊肉,羊肉类

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.

Examples

  • I am willing to bet that you have not eaten mutton in the last six months, probably the last six years.

  • Cue heartbroken Galavant engorging himself on booze and mutton back home.

  • The co-owner of Metropolis Collectables, Vincent has Wolverine mutton chops, a Tony Stark goatee, and Lex Luthor swagger.

  • The speciality was mutton tagine, softly braised in the tagine pot with peas, vegetables, and spices.

  • Mutton Tagine in Zaita, Morocco This photo was taken at a tiny roadside town on the drive to Fez.

  • Generally, meat gets stringier, gamier, and less tasty as the animal ages: compare mutton (an old sheep) to lamb.

  • Do not gastronomists complain of heaviness in London after eating a couple of mutton-chops?

  • No doubt, having feasted on mutton so long, he had got a little sick of it, and thought he would make a dinner on beef.

  • They mostly raise a few sheep and goats; the sheep are a poor lot, the wool is of a very inferior class, and the mutton poor.

  • My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone.

  • M. Noel, in a dress-coat, very dark skinned and with mutton-chop whiskers, came forward to meet us.