"mutton" Definition

Definitions for the word "mutton" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
Flesh of sheep as food. [medieval latin multo sheep]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
a contemptuous term for a woman of bad character; sometimes varied to LACED MUTTON. The expression was used as a cant term for a “wild duck” in the reign of James I. As a slang term it was employed by Ben Jonson in his masque of _Neptune’s Triumph_, which was written for display at Court on Twelfth Night, 1623; “a fine LACED MUTTON or two,” are the words applied to wantons. Shakspeare has the term. In that class of English society which does not lay any claim to refinement, a fond lover is often spoken of as being “fond of his MUTTON,” which, by the way, in this place does not mean the woman so much as something else.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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