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Mutton vs Sheepflesh - What's the difference?

mutton | sheepflesh |

As nouns the difference between mutton and sheepflesh

is that mutton is the flesh of sheep used as food while sheepflesh is the meat or flesh of sheep; mutton.

As an adjective mutton

is (cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

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

    *

    sheepflesh

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) *

    Noun

    (-)
  • The meat or flesh of sheep; mutton.
  • *1860 , Benson John Lossing, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Life of Washington :
    • Everybody wore home-made clothing; and that wool might not become scarce, the use of sheepflesh , for food, was discouraged.
  • *1877 , Horatio C. Wood, Charles Rice, Frederick Albert Castle, New remedies: Volume 6 :
    • Sheep and goat wines are directed to be prepared in the following' manner: Take ten catties (i catty — i \ lb.) of soaked rice, seven catties of goat or sheep flesh , fourteen onions, one Shan-tung cabbage, and a catty of almond kernels [...]
  • *2001 , Eurípides, Heather McHugh, David Konstan, Cyclops :
    • SILENUS It's each man by and for himself. There is no govermnent. ODYSSEUS Is Demeter respected here? I mean, do they plant grain? What do they live on? SILENUS Curds and whey and sheepflesh , sir.
  • *2007 , Donald McCaig, Nop's Hope :
    • The sheep were a solid lump of woolly sheepflesh , swirling, and though Penny tried to separate them, they were like commuters jammed in a subway car, nothing could break them apart.

    Synonyms

    *sheepmeat

    Hyponyms

    *lamb