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glutton
English
Etymology
From Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluto, glutonis. Application of the term to the wolverine was due to the belief that the animal was inordinately voracious, and to the German designation of it as the Vielfraß, which was analyzed as viel (“much”) + fressen (“eat”) although it actually derives from Old Norse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??l?t(?)n/
- Hyphenation: glut?ton
- Rhymes: -?t?n
Adjective
glutton (comparative more glutton, superlative most glutton)
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
- A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
Noun
glutton (plural gluttons)
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
- (now rare) The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
- 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, VII:
- [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 Priestley, Letters to Burke, VII:
Synonyms
- (voracious eater): see Thesaurus:glutton
Translations
See also
- glutton for punishment
Verb
glutton (third-person singular simple present gluttons, present participle gluttoning, simple past and past participle gluttoned)
- (archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
- a. 1657, Richard Lovelace, On Sanazar's Hundred Duckets by hte Clarissimi of Venice
- Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.
- 1915, Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor:
- 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.'
- a. 1657, Richard Lovelace, On Sanazar's Hundred Duckets by hte Clarissimi of Venice
- (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
- 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles
- Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 75
- Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
- 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles
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References
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overeater
English
Etymology
overeat +? -er
Noun
overeater (plural overeaters)
- One who eats too much; particularly one who does so regularly.
- 1990, Doug Peterson, H. Winfield Tutte, Fearfully and Wonderfully Weird
- The great myth about overeaters is, "They could lose weight if they really wanted to."
- 1990, Doug Peterson, H. Winfield Tutte, Fearfully and Wonderfully Weird
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