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Perry cooked anything and everything—from possum and racoon meat to pork and mutton.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024 When customers walk into the shop they’re greeted by ghoulish masks of past presidents, a wall of wacky, colorful wigs and an impressive collection of stick-on mutton chops, mustaches and goatees in a glass counter.—Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024 Get ready for thrilling rodeo events like bull riding, barrel racing, mutton busting, and roping.—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024 Also, there’s just not a ton to do in most of Kansas, so why not hop on a horse or bust some mutton?
3.—Allyson Reedy, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mutton
Word History
Etymology
Middle English motoun, mutton, sheep, from Anglo-French mutun ram, sheep, mutton, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish molt wether
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