glutton

1 a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: gourmand, trencherman]

2 wolverine of northern Eurasia [syn: Gulo gulo, wolverine]

English

Etymology

glotoun, glotun, glouton, from gluto, glutto.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌtən

Adjective

1. gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

   "A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days." -Fuller.

Quotations

• 1597 — William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3

  So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorgeThy glutton bosom of the royal Richard

Noun

1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2. One who gluts himself.

   "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy." -Granville.

3. A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo), of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverine. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Quotations

• c.1860 — Emily Dickinson, Hope is a subtle Glutton

  Hope is a subtle Glutton / He feeds upon the Fair

• 1878 — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

  "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."

Translations

See also

• glutton for punishment

Verb

1. To glut; to eat voraciously.

   "Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine." -Lovelace.

   "Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed." -Drayton.

Quotations

• 1598 — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 75

  Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

Related terms

• gluttonous
• gluttonously
• gluttony

Glutton may refer to:

• One who over-indulges in and over-consumes food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. See Gluttony
• Another name for the wolverine

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