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Mutton is the meat that comes from an adult sheep. It has a stronger taste than lamb, which is the meat from a young sheep — many Western cooks today use lamb far more often than mutton, but mutton is still common in many other cuisines, including curries.
羊肉（成羊肉，非小羊）
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Muttonname
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A surname.
muttonnoun/ˈmʌt(ə)n/
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The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
- Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.
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The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.
- This prejudice against goat mutton is founded upon ignorance rather than experience. The most ill-smelling “billy” of the worst possible type is made the standard of goat flesh for the whole goat family.
- Generally urial mutton is excellent in spite of their strongly scented food, especially if the beasts are young. Their skins are valueless even to the Dard, who can turn most things to some account, and so one commonly finds them [discarded].
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archaicA sheep.
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slangmediapublishingtypographyEm, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
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obsoleteslangA prostitute.
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historicalAn old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
muttonadj/ˈmʌt(ə)n/
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slangdeaf.
- He's been a bit mutton in one ear for a long time; not due to my mother, but as a result of all the years spent working in a noisy car factory.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。