mutton-monger slang.
[f. mutton (sense 4) + monger.]
1. A whoremonger. Now Obs. or rare.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 366/1 Motenmongers, priapistes, ydolaters, whoremaisters. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 151 b, One Didymo (who..had in euery bodyes mouth a veraye eiuil name of beeyng a muttonmoungre). 1600 Look About You H 4, Ah old Muttonmounger I beleeue heer's worke towards. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Mutton-monger, a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 201 A mutton-monger, un coureur de filles. |
† 2. A great eater of mutton; also, a sheep-stealer. Obs.
| 1649 W. M. Wandering Jew (1857) 42 He is a curse to Pasties; a Tormentor of Poultry,..a terrible Sheep-biter; a horrible Mutton-monger, a Gorbelly-Glutton. 1664 Cotton Scarron. i. 34 Yet scarce could satisfie their hungers, These Trojans were such Mutton-mongers. a 1700 [see 1]. |