laced mutton

noun

A prostitute.

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Meanings

nounlaced mutton (plural laced muttons)

plural laced muttons

  1. idiomaticobsoleteA prostitute.

    A fine laced mutton, Or two; and either has her frisking husband

    1624, Ben Jonson, Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
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    Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour.

    c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

Synonyms & antonyms

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muttonprostitute
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