Glutton
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
"Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts."
- 2 musteline mammal of northern Eurasia wordnet
- 3 One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess. broadly
""Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.""
- 4 a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess wordnet
- 5 The wolverine, Gulo gulo. archaic
"[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 […]."
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- 6 A giant petrel. colloquial
- 1 To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity. archaic
"Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine."
- 2 To glut; to eat voraciously. obsolete
"Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed."
- 1 Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
"A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days."
Example
More examples"She is a glutton for punishment."
Etymology
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.
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