muttony
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]muttony (comparative more muttony, superlative most muttony)
- Like mutton; having a flavour of mutton.
- 1891, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 17, page 137:
- 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 […]