muttony
adjEtymology From mutton + -y.
1
Like mutton; having a flavour of mutton.
- I confess to having felt a prejudice against sleeping in a bag, more especially a sheepskin bag, which would probably have a muttony odor; but it was pronounced to be the warmest and least cumbersome form of bedding we could have […]1891, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 17, page 137:
- Derived terms
- muttoniness