different between gluttonous vs glutton

English

Etymology

From glutton +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??l?t(?)n?s/
• Hyphenation: glut?ton?ous

Adjective

gluttonous (comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
   • 1611 — KJV, Matthew 11:19

     Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

2. Greedy.
   • 1607 — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens iii 4

     Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
     And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.

   • 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:

     Look your last on your dearest ones,
     Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
     Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.

   • 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:

     One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

Related terms

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony

Translations

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)

1. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

   • A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.

Noun

glutton (plural gluttons)

1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

2. (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
3. (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 […] .

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)

1. (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.'

2. (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.

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