noun [U]
1 a thick cold yellow or brown sauce that tastes hot and spicy and is usually eaten with meat:
a jar of mustard * mustard powder * French / English mustard
2 a small plant with yellow flowers, grown for its seeds that are crushed to make mustard
3 a brownish-yellow colour
mustard adjective:
a mustard sweater
IDIOMS
(not) cut the mustard to (not) be as good as expected or required:
I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player.
moreatKEENadj.
