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Mutton chop

Mutton \Mut"ton\, n. [OE. motoun, OF. moton, molton, a sheep, wether, F. mouton, LL. multo, by transposition of l fr. L. mutilus mutilated. See Mutilate.]

  1. A sheep. [Obs.]
    --Chapman.

    Not so much ground as will feed a mutton.
    --Sir H. Sidney.

    Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds.
    --Hallam.

  2. The flesh of a sheep.

    The fat of roasted mutton or beef.
    --Swift.

  3. A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.]

    Mutton bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian short-tailed petrel ( Nectris brevicaudus).

    Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off.

    Mutton fish (Zo["o]l.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout.

    Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.]
    --Dryden.

    Mutton monger, a pimp. [Low & Obs.]
    --Chapman.

    To return to one's muttons. [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons [`a] nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous]

    I willingly return to my muttons.
    --H. R. Haweis.

WordNet
mutton chop
  1. n. chop cut from a mature sheep

  2. beard grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) [syn: sideburn, burnside, side-whiskers]

Wikipedia
Mutton chop
  1. Redirect Sideburns

Usage examples of "mutton chop".

With no appetite for the giant Mutton Chop cooling in front of him, Mason mopishly now wraps it and stows it in his Coat.

The jury then retired to their private room to talk the matter over, and the judge retired to HIS private room, to refresh himself with a mutton chop and a glass of sherry.

His florid face sported bushy orangeish eyebrows and mutton chop whiskers that were losing the battle to the creeping white hairs of middle age.

I do love a dry chop, a really well-dried mutton chop, turned twice a day.