Mutton vs. Sheep

Muttonnoun

The flesh of sheep used as food.

Sheepnoun

(countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

Muttonnoun

(archaic) A sheep.

Sheepnoun

(countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

Muttonnoun

Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

Sheepnoun

(uncountable) Sheepskin leather.

Muttonnoun

A prostitute.

Sheepnoun

A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

Muttonnoun

(historical) An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.

Sheep

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

Muttonadjective

(Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.

Sheep

A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

Muttonnoun

A sheep.

‘Not so much ground as will feed a mutton.’; ‘Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds.’;

Sheep

Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

Muttonnoun

The flesh of a sheep.

‘The fat of roasted mutton or beef.’;

Sheepnoun

woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

Muttonnoun

A loose woman; a prostitute.

‘I willingly return to my muttons.’;

Sheepnoun

a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

Muttonnoun

meat from a mature domestic sheep

Sheepnoun

a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision;

‘his students followed him like sheep’;

Muttonnoun

the square of a body of any size of type

Sheep

Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates.