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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mustard is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does mustard appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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