glutton

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

Adjective

  1. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
    • A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. - 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
    • So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard? - 1597, William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3:

Origin

From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.

Forms

more glutton most glutton

Noun

  1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
    • Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
  2. One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
    • "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy." - 1705, George Granville, The British Enchanters:
    • "A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton." - 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
    • Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair; - a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Hope is a subtle glutton”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers,...
  3. The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
    • [A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […]. - 1791, Joseph...
  4. A giant petrel.

Forms

gluttons

Synonyms

belly-god buzgut cormorant epicure gannet glutton gorger gourmand gormandizer greedyguts guttle hog Homer Simpson helluo pig slow belly trencherman

Hypernyms

bon vivant epicurean gastronome gastronomer gastronomist person sensualist

Related

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Verb

  1. To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
    • Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine. - a. 1657, Richard Lovelace, On Sanazar's Hundred Duckets by hte Clarissimi of Venice:
    • In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.' - 1915, Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser,...
  2. To glut; to eat voraciously.
    • Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. - 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles:
    • Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away. - 1598, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 75:

Forms

gluttons gluttoning gluttoned

Related

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