laced mutton
English
Noun
laced mutton (plural laced muttons)
- (idiomatic, obsolete) A prostitute.
- 1624, Ben Jonson, Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
- A fine laced mutton, Or two; and either has her frisking husband
- c. 1590–1591, 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 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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.
- 1624, Ben Jonson, Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
References
- laced in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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