1819. Moore, Tom Crib, 34. By showing such a fist of mutton, As . . . Would take the shine from Speaker Sutton.
1836. M. Scott, Cringle's Log, viii. But Paul, with his shoulder of mutton fist, gave me a very unceremonious rebuff.
1836. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 'The Bagman's Dog.' At each twist of her wrist, and her great mutton-fist.
1846. Punch, x. 163. Ruggins of the mutton-fist.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 190. The big fellow's mutton-fist dropping him a hot 'un.
Mutton-headed, adj. (old).—Stupid.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Mutton-monger, subs, (old).—A whoremonger.
English synonyms. Ballocks (or ballocker); beard-splitter; belly-bumper; bird (or cock) of the game; bird's-nester; Bluebeard; bull; bum-faker (-tickler, -ranger, or -worker); button-hole-worker; carrion-hunter; cavaulter; chauvering-cove (or chauverer); chimney-sweep; cock-fighter; Corinthian: Don Juan; fish- (flesh- or meat-) monger; fuckster; game-*cock; goat; high priest of Paphos; horseman; hot- (or warm-) member; hot-'un; jumbler; king of clubs; knocker; ladies' tailor; leather-stretcher; leg-lifter; ling-grappler; miller; molrower; Mormon; Mr. Horner; muttoner; performer; petticoal-merchant; prick-scourer; quim-sticker; rattle-cap; rifle-man; rump-splitter; sharp-shooter; smell-smock; Solomon; sports-man; stallion; striker; thrumster; town- (or parish-) bull; twat-faker; tummy-tickler; wencher; woodman.
French synonyms. Un abatteur de bois (popular); un acteur (general); un ami (prostitutes') un Anglais; un bébé; un bobosse (common); un boche (popular); un bordelier (general); un boucaneur (popular); un boxonneur (boxon = brothel); un cascadeur (theatrical); un chaud de la pince (popular); un chevaucheur (popular); un courasson or vieux courasson (familiar); un coureur (popular); un cousin; un coureur; un dénicheur de fauvettes; un enfilé à la rigolade (thieves'); un étalon (= stallion); un fouailleur (popular); un godilleur (popular); un goteur (popular); un gourgandin (popular); un Hercule (common); un homme à femmes (common: also, un homme ardent, and un homme à ressorts); un juponnier; un larcottier (Old French); un leveur de femmes (common); un amant de la lune (popular); un matou (= molrower); un menin (Old French); un miché, michet, or micheton (popular: from michon = money); un milord; un noctambule (popular); un novateur des plaisirs (popular); un paillard (old); un paillasson (= mattress); un porté sur l'article (popular); un roumard (thieves').
1594. Look About You [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 473]. Ah! old mutton-monger, I believe here's work.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Feminiére, a whore-monger, a frequenter of women, a mutton monger. Also belonging or pertaining to women,
