leg of muttonn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌlɛɡ əv ˈmʌtn/, U.S.

/ˌlɛɡ əv ˈmətn/

Forms: see leg n. and of prep. and mutton n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: leg n., of prep., mutton n.

Etymology: < leg n. + of prep. + mutton n.With sense A. 1 compare earlier gigot n.¹ In use as adjective designating a sleeve (see sense B. 2) after French manche en gigot (see gigot-sleeve n. at gigot n.¹ Compounds).

A. n.

1. The leg of a sheep used as food.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > other cuts or parts

Jack1466

sheep's tongue1552

leg of mutton1570

porknell1596

nut1611

pope's eye1663

hand1671

mutton chop1696

mutton cutlet1706

wether-gammona1774

wobbler1823

Queen Elizabeth's bone1846

chump1861

skirt1881

1570 Charges Dinner Ld. Leiyster at Oxf. 6 Sept. in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 6 For a lege of mutton to be boyled and stofed with parshleye..viij d.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Aa A breast or legge of Mutton.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oeil de Iudas, the Nut, or Fryers peece of a Leg of Mutton.

1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility x. 94 A legg of Mutton is cut above the handle, by thrusting the knife as deep into it as one may.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. x. 62 He lighted a fire, spitted a leg of mutton.

1786 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Aug. (1926) II. 262 We had..a Leg of Mutton boiled but no Capers and a comical plumb Pudding.

1865 M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France xxix. 316 It is common here to piquer a leg of mutton with garlic, that is, small holes are drilled in it before roasting, and a small kind of garlic..inserted therein.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5/2 In schools, where topsides and legs of mutton are the chief supply, the price would be proportionately less.

1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark 48 There was an old-fashioned cutter yacht at anchor in Brodick Bay, with a leg of mutton and two plucked fowls hanging openly under the overhang of her stern.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 June a18 Dinner..surpassed lunch by starting out with an elegant omelette, followed by roast leg of mutton served with buttered stringbeans.

2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood ii. 51 In the summer, the kids slept on the fire escape. They ate greasy legs of mutton and drank milk from jelly jars.

†2. = leg-of-mutton shell n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell

seashella900

shale1561

buckie1596

caracol1622

valve1661

spire1681

umbilicus1688

conch-shell1697

wart-shell?1711

needle1713

multivalve1753

concha1755

periosteum1758

conch1773

devil's claw1773

furbelow1776

peewit's egg1776

worm-tube1776

rosebud1815

sheath1815

periostracum1833

epicuticle1885

epicuticula1886

leg of mutton1891

trivalve1891

1891 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister in Christian Leader 5 Nov. 1068/2 The lady teachers..explored with their classes the great shell-heaps for ‘rosebuds’ and ‘legs of mutton’.

1895 S. R. Crockett in Leisure Hour 44 105/1 They examined carefully the heaped mounds of shells, mostly broken, for the legs of mutton that meant to them love and long life and prosperity.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Usually hyphenated.

1. That resembles a leg of mutton in shape or appearance.Earliest in leg-of-mutton fist n. at Compounds.

ΚΠ

1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 23 July His adversary twisted down his leg of mutton fist.

1856 Inside Sebastopol xvi. 357 The oaks are cut and cropped into that leg-of-mutton shape which we see in Perugino's landscapes.

1868 Odd Fellow's Compan. Nov. 223/1 A little writhing baby, with top-heavy head and leg-of-mutton arms.

1912 R. Cullum Twins of Suffering Creek xiii. 157 His arms were a little too long and terminated in two ‘leg-of-mutton’ hands.

1985 Christie's Sale Catal. Mod. & Vintage Firearms 20 Mar. 24/1 In a leather leg-of-mutton case.

2005 D. Daley-Clarke Lazy Eye 23 I knew he hadn't taken it well because Mum kept adjusting her Lady Penelope glasses and wouldn't talk, just kept throwing stones in the leg-of-mutton pond.

2. Designating a sleeve which is full and loose around the upper arm but tight-fitting on the forearm and wrist. Chiefly in leg-of-mutton sleeve. Also called gigot-sleeve (gigot n.¹ Compounds), mutton-leg sleeve (mutton n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of

poke1402

foresleeve1538

long sleeve1538

lumbard1542

puller out1543

maunch1550

hand sleeve1585

French sleeve1592

poke sleeve1592

puff1601

trunk sleeve1603

stock-sleeve1611

hoop-sleeve1614

puff sleevec1632

short sleeve1639

hanging sleeve1659

engageants1690

jockey-sleeve1692

pudding-sleeve1704

Amadis1814

gigot1824

leg of mutton1824

bishop sleeve1829

mutton-leg sleeve1830

balloon sleeve1837

gigot-sleeve1837

bag-sleeve1844

pagoda sleeve1850

mameluke sleeve1853

angel sleeve1859

elbow-sleeve1875

sling-sleeve1888

sleevelet1889

pagoda1890

bell-sleeve1892

kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

1824 Morning Post 3 Aug. Dresses.—Eighty out of every hundred are en blouze, with the manches en gigot (anglice, leg of mutton sleeves), are very large, and bouffetées (full) at the shoulder, from whence they lessen to the wrist.

1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 218 Mrs. Button had dressed herself in leg-of-mutton sleeves.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 12/2 The elbow-sleeves are quite of the leg-of-mutton shape, and they are finished with frills of white lace.

1953 Los Angeles Times 21 Sept. i. 2/4 A girl in an hourglass bridal gown with leg-of-mutton sleeves, and a bridegroom decked out in a cutaway coat.

2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) iv. 43 Katharina was in mauve and white shot silk moirée and Valenciennes lace with huge leg-of-mutton puffs above the elbow.

3. Nautical. Designating a type of triangular sail, esp. a mainsail, now typically one used on a small craft where the sprit or boom stretches the clew of the sail without being fixed to the foot, and the foot of the sail normally extends below the boom. Chiefly in leg-of-mutton sail or leg-of-mutton rig. Also called mutton-ham sail (see mutton ham n. 2), shoulder of mutton sail, shoulder of mutton rig (see shoulder n. 4c(b)).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > of specific shape

shoal1688

swallow-tailed1794

leg of mutton1848

swallow-winged1859

jib-headed1861

1848 Cork Mag. Sept. 700/2 The tempest suddenly lulled to a fresh breeze, before which we scudded under a leg of mutton sail.

1894 Outing May 148/1 The leg-of-mutton rig, whether combined with a jib or not, is the simplest and safest known.

1967 Mariner's Mirror 53 239 Sharpies were shoal-draft craft of hard-chine construction, rigged with two leg-of-mutton sails.

1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) xv. 182 I had not known we had a sail... Of leg-of-mutton cut, it was so thin and sere that what wind there was..blew right through it.

2003 Canad. Geographic Nov. 80/2 Like the rodney, the ‘double-ender’ had oakum caulking, two sets of oars and a take-down mast with a leg-o'-mutton sail for the ponds.

Compounds

leg-of-mutton fist n. a large or muscular fist; cf. shoulder of mutton fist at shoulder n. 4c(b).

ΚΠ

1796leg of mutton fist [see sense B. 1].

1832 London Lit. Gaz. 28 Apr. 268/2 She flourished her leg-of-mutton fist in my face.

1885 F. Gordon Pyotshaw 26 He brandished his leg-of-mutton fist.

1908 A. Ollivant Gentleman liii. 243 Could he stand by and see that little baboon-thing with the hairy bosom and leg-of-mutton fists murder in cold blood a noble gentleman to whom he owed his life?

1913 Times of India 24 May 7/3 When the ponderous Irishman swung round the nimble Sly was out of the range of Hutchinson's leg of mutton fist.

2001 Times (Nexis) 10 July (Features section) In appearance he was built like a brewer's drayman, and had a leg-of-mutton fist to suit.

leg-of-mutton shell n. a mollusc shell whose shape suggests that of a leg of mutton; esp. (formerly) the pelican's foot, Aporrhais pespelecani, and (in later use) a pen shell (family Pinnidae); (also) the mollusc itself.

ΚΠ

1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 159 The common leg-of-mutton shell (Aporrhais pes pelicani..) of our shores, and the beautiful tribe of Cypreas..furnish familiar examples.

1885 Trans. Inverness Sci. Soc. 1875–80 1 257 A most abundant shell in this locality is the pelican's foot or leg-of-mutton shell (Aporrhais pes-pelicani).

1941 C. T. Reed Marine Life Texas Waters 53 Atrina rigida, Dill, or leg-of-mutton shell, and Atrina sirrata Sowerby, are also present, but less abundant.

1950 J. Hornell Fishing in Many Waters (2014) xxi. 202 The adductor muscle of Pinna, the leg-of-mutton shell, is a delicacy eaten both raw and cooked [in Japan].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leg of mutton
释义	leg of muttonn.adj. Brit. /ˌlɛɡ əv ˈmʌtn/, U.S. /ˌlɛɡ əv ˈmətn/ Forms: see leg n. and of prep. and mutton n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: leg n., of prep., mutton n. Etymology: < leg n. + of prep. + mutton n.With sense A. 1 compare earlier gigot n.¹ In use as adjective designating a sleeve (see sense B. 2) after French manche en gigot (see gigot-sleeve n. at gigot n.¹ Compounds). A. n. 1. The leg of a sheep used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > other cuts or parts Jack1466 sheep's tongue1552 leg of mutton1570 porknell1596 nut1611 pope's eye1663 hand1671 mutton chop1696 mutton cutlet1706 wether-gammona1774 wobbler1823 Queen Elizabeth's bone1846 chump1861 skirt1881 1570 Charges Dinner Ld. Leiyster at Oxf. 6 Sept. in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 6 For a lege of mutton to be boyled and stofed with parshleye..viij d. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Aa A breast or legge of Mutton. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oeil de Iudas, the Nut, or Fryers peece of a Leg of Mutton. 1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility x. 94 A legg of Mutton is cut above the handle, by thrusting the knife as deep into it as one may. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. x. 62 He lighted a fire, spitted a leg of mutton. 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Aug. (1926) II. 262 We had..a Leg of Mutton boiled but no Capers and a comical plumb Pudding. 1865 M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France xxix. 316 It is common here to piquer a leg of mutton with garlic, that is, small holes are drilled in it before roasting, and a small kind of garlic..inserted therein. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5/2 In schools, where topsides and legs of mutton are the chief supply, the price would be proportionately less. 1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark 48 There was an old-fashioned cutter yacht at anchor in Brodick Bay, with a leg of mutton and two plucked fowls hanging openly under the overhang of her stern. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 June a18 Dinner..surpassed lunch by starting out with an elegant omelette, followed by roast leg of mutton served with buttered stringbeans. 2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood ii. 51 In the summer, the kids slept on the fire escape. They ate greasy legs of mutton and drank milk from jelly jars. †2. = leg-of-mutton shell n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell seashella900 shale1561 buckie1596 caracol1622 valve1661 spire1681 umbilicus1688 conch-shell1697 wart-shell?1711 needle1713 multivalve1753 concha1755 periosteum1758 conch1773 devil's claw1773 furbelow1776 peewit's egg1776 worm-tube1776 rosebud1815 sheath1815 periostracum1833 epicuticle1885 epicuticula1886 leg of mutton1891 trivalve1891 1891 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister in Christian Leader 5 Nov. 1068/2 The lady teachers..explored with their classes the great shell-heaps for ‘rosebuds’ and ‘legs of mutton’. 1895 S. R. Crockett in Leisure Hour 44 105/1 They examined carefully the heaped mounds of shells, mostly broken, for the legs of mutton that meant to them love and long life and prosperity. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Usually hyphenated. 1. That resembles a leg of mutton in shape or appearance.Earliest in leg-of-mutton fist n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 23 July His adversary twisted down his leg of mutton fist. 1856 Inside Sebastopol xvi. 357 The oaks are cut and cropped into that leg-of-mutton shape which we see in Perugino's landscapes. 1868 Odd Fellow's Compan. Nov. 223/1 A little writhing baby, with top-heavy head and leg-of-mutton arms. 1912 R. Cullum Twins of Suffering Creek xiii. 157 His arms were a little too long and terminated in two ‘leg-of-mutton’ hands. 1985 Christie's Sale Catal. Mod. & Vintage Firearms 20 Mar. 24/1 In a leather leg-of-mutton case. 2005 D. Daley-Clarke Lazy Eye 23 I knew he hadn't taken it well because Mum kept adjusting her Lady Penelope glasses and wouldn't talk, just kept throwing stones in the leg-of-mutton pond. 2. Designating a sleeve which is full and loose around the upper arm but tight-fitting on the forearm and wrist. Chiefly in leg-of-mutton sleeve. Also called gigot-sleeve (gigot n.¹ Compounds), mutton-leg sleeve (mutton n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 1824 Morning Post 3 Aug. Dresses.—Eighty out of every hundred are en blouze, with the manches en gigot (anglice, leg of mutton sleeves), are very large, and bouffetées (full) at the shoulder, from whence they lessen to the wrist. 1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 218 Mrs. Button had dressed herself in leg-of-mutton sleeves. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 12/2 The elbow-sleeves are quite of the leg-of-mutton shape, and they are finished with frills of white lace. 1953 Los Angeles Times 21 Sept. i. 2/4 A girl in an hourglass bridal gown with leg-of-mutton sleeves, and a bridegroom decked out in a cutaway coat. 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) iv. 43 Katharina was in mauve and white shot silk moirée and Valenciennes lace with huge leg-of-mutton puffs above the elbow. 3. Nautical. Designating a type of triangular sail, esp. a mainsail, now typically one used on a small craft where the sprit or boom stretches the clew of the sail without being fixed to the foot, and the foot of the sail normally extends below the boom. Chiefly in leg-of-mutton sail or leg-of-mutton rig. Also called mutton-ham sail (see mutton ham n. 2), shoulder of mutton sail, shoulder of mutton rig (see shoulder n. 4c(b)). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > of specific shape shoal1688 swallow-tailed1794 leg of mutton1848 swallow-winged1859 jib-headed1861 1848 Cork Mag. Sept. 700/2 The tempest suddenly lulled to a fresh breeze, before which we scudded under a leg of mutton sail. 1894 Outing May 148/1 The leg-of-mutton rig, whether combined with a jib or not, is the simplest and safest known. 1967 Mariner's Mirror 53 239 Sharpies were shoal-draft craft of hard-chine construction, rigged with two leg-of-mutton sails. 1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) xv. 182 I had not known we had a sail... Of leg-of-mutton cut, it was so thin and sere that what wind there was..blew right through it. 2003 Canad. Geographic Nov. 80/2 Like the rodney, the ‘double-ender’ had oakum caulking, two sets of oars and a take-down mast with a leg-o'-mutton sail for the ponds. Compounds leg-of-mutton fist n. a large or muscular fist; cf. shoulder of mutton fist at shoulder n. 4c(b). ΚΠ 1796leg of mutton fist [see sense B. 1]. 1832 London Lit. Gaz. 28 Apr. 268/2 She flourished her leg-of-mutton fist in my face. 1885 F. Gordon Pyotshaw 26 He brandished his leg-of-mutton fist. 1908 A. Ollivant Gentleman liii. 243 Could he stand by and see that little baboon-thing with the hairy bosom and leg-of-mutton fists murder in cold blood a noble gentleman to whom he owed his life? 1913 Times of India 24 May 7/3 When the ponderous Irishman swung round the nimble Sly was out of the range of Hutchinson's leg of mutton fist. 2001 Times (Nexis) 10 July (Features section) In appearance he was built like a brewer's drayman, and had a leg-of-mutton fist to suit. leg-of-mutton shell n. a mollusc shell whose shape suggests that of a leg of mutton; esp. (formerly) the pelican's foot, Aporrhais pespelecani, and (in later use) a pen shell (family Pinnidae); (also) the mollusc itself. ΚΠ 1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 159 The common leg-of-mutton shell (Aporrhais pes pelicani..) of our shores, and the beautiful tribe of Cypreas..furnish familiar examples. 1885 Trans. Inverness Sci. Soc. 1875–80 1 257 A most abundant shell in this locality is the pelican's foot or leg-of-mutton shell (Aporrhais pes-pelicani). 1941 C. T. Reed Marine Life Texas Waters 53 Atrina rigida, Dill, or leg-of-mutton shell, and Atrina sirrata Sowerby, are also present, but less abundant. 1950 J. Hornell Fishing in Many Waters (2014) xxi. 202 The adductor muscle of Pinna, the leg-of-mutton shell, is a delicacy eaten both raw and cooked [in Japan]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1570
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