Mutton-eyed. See Sheep’s-eyed.
Mutton-fist (or -hand), subs. (common).—A hand large, bony, and coarse.
1672. C. Cotton, Scarronides, Bk. i. p. 10 (ed. 1725). With woful
Heart and blubber’d Eyes, Lifting his mutton-fists to th’ Skies.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, xvi. 45. Will he, who saw the soldier’s
mutton-fist, And saw thee maul’d, appear within the list To witness
truth?
1706. Ward, Hudibras Redivivus, Vol. 1. pt. vii. p. 25. Attended by
a Rogue, design’d To guard and vindicate his Jewel With mutton fist
and Oaken Towel.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, i. 92. But when plump Ciss got the
Ball in her mutton fist, once fretted, she’d hit it farther than
any.
1812. H. and J. Smith, Rejected Addresses (‘Punch’s Apotheosis’).
See she twists her mutton fists like Molyneux or Beelzebub, And
t’other’s clack, who pats her back, is louder far than Bell’s
hubbub.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, 34. By showing such a fist of mutton, As....
Would take the shine from Speaker Sutton.
1836. M. Scott, Cringle’s Log, viii. But Paul, with his shoulder of
mutton fist, gave me a very unceremonious rebuff.
1836. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Bagman’s Dog.’ At each twist
of her wrist, and her great mutton-fist.
1846. Punch, x. 163. Ruggins of the mutton-fist.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 190. The big fellow’s
mutton-fist dropping him a hot ’un.
Mutton-headed, adj. (old).—Stupid.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Mutton-monger, subs. (old).—A whoremonger.
English synonyms. Ballocks (or ballocker); beard-splitter;
belly-bumper; bird (or cock) of the game; bird’s-nester; Bluebeard;
bull; bum-faker (-tickler, -ranger, or -worker); button-hole-worker;
carrion-hunter; cavaulter; chauvering-cove (or chauverer);
chimney-sweep; cock-fighter; Corinthian; Don Juan; fish- (flesh- or
meat-) monger; fuckster; gamecock; goat; high priest of Paphos;
horseman; hot- (or warm-) member; hot-’un; jumbler; king of clubs;
knocker; ladies’ tailor; leather-stretcher; leg-lifter; ling-grappler;
miller; molrower; Mormon; Mr. Horner; muttoner; performer;
petticoat-merchant; prick-scourer; quim-sticker; rattle-cap; rifle-man;
rump-splitter; sharp-shooter; smell-smock; Solomon; sports-man;
stallion; striker; thrumster; town- (or parish-) bull; twat-faker;
tummy-tickler; wencher; woodman.
French synonyms. Un abatteur de bois (popular); un acteur (general); un
ami (prostitutes’) un Anglais; un bébé; un bobosse (common); un boche
(popular); un bordelier (general); un boucaneur (popular); un boxonneur
(boxon = brothel); un cascadeur (theatrical); un chaud de la pince
(popular); un chevaucheur (popular); un courasson or vieux courasson
(familiar); un coureur (popular); un cousin; un couvreur; un dénicheur
de fauvettes; un enfilé à la rigolade (thieves’); un étalon (=
stallion); un fouailleur (popular); un godilleur (popular); un goteur
(popular); un gourgandin (popular); un Hercule (common); un homme à
femmes (common: also, un homme ardent, and un homme à ressorts); un
juponnier; un larcottier (Old French); un leveur de femmes (common); un
amant de la lune (popular); un matou (= molrower); un menin (Old
French); un miché, michet, or micheton (popular: from michon = money);
un milord; un noctambule (popular); un novateur des plaisirs (popular);
un paillard (old); un paillasson (= mattress); un porté sur l’article
(popular); un roumard (thieves’).
1594. Look About You [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 473]. Ah! old
mutton-monger, I believe here’s work.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Feminiére, a whore-monger, a
frequenter of women, a mutton monger. Also belonging or pertaining
to women.
1600. Sir J. Oldcastle, ii. 1. [Malone, Suppt. ii. 294]. You
whorson bawdy priest! You old mutton-monger.
1602. Dekker, Honest Whore [Dodsley, Old Plays, iii. 406]. Is ’t
possible that the lord Hipolito, whose face is as civil as the
outside of a dedicatory book, should be a mutton-monger?
1611. Chapman, May-day, ii. p. 38. As if you were the only noted
mutton-monger in all the city.
1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie. A noteable smel-smocke, or
muttonmonger, a cunning solicitor of a wench.
1654. Webster, Appius & Virg. [Ancient Drama, v. 400], iii.
Mutton’s mutton now. V. Why, was it not so ever? C. No, madam, the
sinners i’ the suburbs had almost ta’en the name quite away from
it, ’twas so cheap and common; but now ’tis at a sweet reckoning;
the term time is the mutton-monger in the whole calendar.
1677. Coles, Dictionary, s.v. Mutton-monger, scortator.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1847. Halliwell, Arch. & Provin. Words, s.v. Motoner. A wencher.
Muttonous, adj. (common).—Slow; monotonous. Fr. guitare.
Mutton-pies, subs. (rhyming).—The eyes. For synonyms see Peepers.
1887. Referee, 7 Nov., p. 7, col. 3. Bright as angels from the
skies Were her dark-blue mutton-pies.
Mutton-thumper, subs. (book-binders’).—A bungling workman.
Mutton-walk, subs. (old).—1. The saloon at Drury Lane theatre.
1821. Egan, Real Life, Tally-ho ... had not yet learned to trip it
lightly along the mutton-walk.
2. (common).—Any resort frequented by women of the town; specifically
Piccadilly; cf. Flesh-market.
Mux, verb. (American).—To muddle.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, lxii. Nicholas ... had thoroughly
muxed up everything.
1872. J. M. Bailey (‘Danbury Newsman’), They all do it, 22. Stop
muxin’ that bread! one would think you were a drove of young hogs
to see you at the table. You’ve eaten enough for twenty people. I
shan’t have you muxing and gauming up the victuals.
Muzz, verb. (common).—1. To intoxicate.
1836. Comic Almanack, 48. While Harlequin half-muzz’d with wine,
Don’t care a rush for Columbine.