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Lamp vs Mutton - What's the difference?

lamp | mutton |

As an acronym lamp

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As a noun mutton is

the flesh of sheep used as food.

As an adjective mutton is

(cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

lamp

English

(wikipedia lamp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device that generates heat, light or other radiation.
  • A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  • A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

    • Derived terms

    * Davy lamp * table lamp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) to hit, clout, belt, wallop
  • to hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping
  • (slang) to hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular

    • Anagrams

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    References

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    mutton

    English

    Noun

  • The flesh of sheep used as food.
  • Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
  • (obsolete) A prostitute.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "mutton")

    Synonyms

    * (meat of a sheep) (l), (l)

    Hyponyms

    * (meat of a sheep) lamb

    Derived terms

    * mutton bird * mutton dressed as lamb

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

    • Synonyms

    * Mutton Jeff

    See also

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