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ˌmutton-ˈchop
1. a. A piece of mutton for broiling or frying, usually a division of the loin containing one rib (having the end of the bone chopped off) and half the vertebra to which it is attached.
1720Swift To Stella Wks. 1755 III. ii. 184 A slice of bread and mutton-chop. 1758Johnson Idler No. 33 ⁋25 Could get nothing but mutton-chops off the worst end. 1789Farley Lond. Art of Cookery (ed. 6) 59 Mutton Chops. Take a loin of mutton, and cut chops from it about half an inch thick. 1848Dickens Dombey viii, Mrs. Pipchin made a special repast of mutton-chops.
attrib.a1860Alb. Smith Lond. Med. Student (1861) 103 A lot of cups, egg-shells, mutton-chop bones, and pewter spoons flew up in the air.
b. pl. slang.
1865Hotten's Slang Dict., Mutton-chops, a sheep's-head.
2. In full mutton-chop whisker: a side whisker shaped like a mutton-chop, i.e. narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom (usu. in pl.). So mutton-chop whiskered adj.
1865Reader No. 121. 456/2 Mutton-chop whiskers. 1875[see Burnside, burnside]. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. ii, His whiskers..were cut to the old-fashioned regulation ‘mutton-chop’, very much like what has now come into fashion again. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 216 Where Leonard sat, burly, florid, black-haired, mutton-chop whiskered. 1904D. C. Murray V.C. 13 The clean-trimmed hirsute mutton-chop on either side the heavy jowl combined to make him intensely respectable to look at. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) vi. 83 Some of the boys had mutton-chops and moustaches. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxiv. 97 The mutton-chop whiskered auctioneer. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem iii. 24 A square honest face framed by mutton-chop whiskers. |