glutton
noun
- a person (or sometimes animal) who eats or consumes food in an excessive or greedy way.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌtn̩/
adj
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.
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
“A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.”
“So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?”
noun
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.
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
“Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.”
- One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
“"Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."”
“"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."”
- 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 […].”
- A giant petrel.
verb
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.
- To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
“Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.”
“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.'”
- To glut; to eat voraciously.
“Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.”
“Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.”