Meat vs. Mutton — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Meat and Mutton
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Meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.
Mutton
The flesh of fully grown sheep.
Meat
The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
Mutton
The flesh of sheep used as food.
Meat
The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
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Mutton
The flesh of goat used as food.
Meat
The essence, substance, or gist
The meat of the editorial.
Mutton
(archaic) A sheep.
Meat
(Slang) Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte
Tennis is his meat.
Mutton
Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
Meat
Nourishment; food
"Love is not all.
Mutton
A prostitute.
Laced mutton
Meat
The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
Mutton
(historical) An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
Meat
The genitals.
Mutton
(Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.
Meat
(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
Mutton
A sheep.
Not so much ground as will feed a mutton.
Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds.
Meat
(countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
Mutton
The flesh of a sheep.
The fat of roasted mutton or beef.
Meat
Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
Mutton
A loose woman; a prostitute.
I willingly return to my muttons.
Meat
A type of food, a dish.
Mutton
Meat from a mature domestic sheep
Meat
(archaic) A meal.
Mutton
The square of a body of any size of type
Meat
(obsolete) Meal; flour.
Meat
(uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
Meat
(slang) A penis.
Meat
(colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
Meat
(sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
Meat
(slang) A meathead.
Throw it in here, meat.
Meat
(Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Meat
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.
Meat
The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
Meat
Dinner; the chief meal.
Meat
To supply with food.
His shield well lined, his horses meated well.
Meat
The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
Meat
The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;
Black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell
Meat
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
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