MUTTON

[noun] [U] - the meat from an adult sheep eaten as fooda shoulder of muttonmutton stewYou rarely see mutton sold in shops these days - sheep meat of any kind is usually called lamb.(UK informal disapproving) If you describe a person, usually a woman, as mutton dressed (up) as lamb, you mean that they are trying in a too obvious way to look younger than they are, in order to seem sexually attractive.Do you think this dress is too young-looking for me? - I don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb.