Muttony

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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 […]"

Example

More examples

"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 […]"

Etymology

From mutton + -y.

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