Green’s Dictionary of Slang

mutton-monger n.1

[mutton n. (1c) + SE monger, ult. Lat. mango, a dealer or trafficker]

a promiscuous man.

[UK]T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt I 59: Motenmongers, pryapystes, idolatres, horemaysters, and sodomytes.
[UK]Udall (trans.) 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.
Rider Dict. n.p.: A Muttonmonger [...] Mulierarius.
[UK]Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: har.: You whorson bawdy priest. sir john: You old mutton-monger.
[UK]Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Fetherstone, like a crafty mutton-monger, persuades Greenshield.
[UK]Chapman 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.
[UK]J. Taylor ‘Great Eater of Kent’ in 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.
[UK]J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 184: Sirrah, I hear you are a Mutton monger and run after laced Mutton.
[UK]M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 105: Here came a Stroler starv’d with hunger, / I ask’d him for my Mutton-munger; / Lives he?
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Mutton-monger a Lover of Women.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 99: It joys me now that they no longer / Need fight, but that d---d mutton-monger.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Mutton Monger, a Man adicted [sic] to Wenching.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
[UK]Halliwell Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 568/1: MUTTON. A prostitute. Mutton-monger, a man addicted to muttons.
[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 74: Coniste, m. A wencher; ‘a mutton-monger’.

In phrases

go mutton-mongering (v.)

to have sexual intercourse.

[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 235: Ribauder, To copulate; ‘to go mutton-mongering’.