mutton-monger n.1
a promiscuous man.
Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt I 59: Motenmongers, pryapystes, idolatres, horemaysters, and sodomytes. | ||
Erasmus’ Apophthegms (1564) Bk I 62: Now a mischief on the hartes of these naughtie & wretched muttonmongers, that haue brought soche a singulare good thing as this, in slaunder & infamie. | (trans.)||
Dict. n.p.: A Muttonmonger [...] Mulierarius. | ||
Sir John Oldcastle II i: har.: You whorson bawdy priest. sir john: You old mutton-monger. | ||
Northward Hoe IV i: Fetherstone, like a crafty mutton-monger, persuades Greenshield. | ||
May-Day II i: Any other man, she says, might better adventure with the least thing changed about ’em than you with all, as if you were the only noted mutton-monger in all the city. | ||
Works (1869) I 143: For though he be chaste of his body, yet his minde is onely upon flesh, he is the only tugmutton, or mutton-monger, between Dover and Dunbarr. | ‘Great Eater of Kent’ in||
Crabtree Lectures 184: Sirrah, I hear you are a Mutton monger and run after laced Mutton. | ||
Wits Paraphras’d 105: Here came a Stroler starv’d with hunger, / I ask’d him for my Mutton-munger; / Lives he? | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Mutton-monger a Lover of Women. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 99: It joys me now that they no longer / Need fight, but that d---d mutton-monger. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Mutton Monger, a Man adicted [sic] to Wenching. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. | ||
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 568/1: MUTTON. A prostitute. Mutton-monger, a man addicted to muttons. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 74: Coniste, m. A wencher; ‘a mutton-monger’. |
In phrases
to have sexual intercourse.
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 235: Ribauder, To copulate; ‘to go mutton-mongering’. |