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单词 giddy mutton
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giddy mutton
e. dialect. Of a sheep: Affected with the ‘gid’. giddy mutton (see quot. 1881).
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Giddy,..a term applied to sheep that have hydatides on the brain.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Lambs and sheep are said to be giddy when they take to turning round in an aimless sort of way..When the animal is killed as it generally is on manifesting this gyratory tendency, the meat is known as ‘giddy lamb’, or ‘giddy mutton’.
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