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glutton

noun

  1. a person (or sometimes animal) who eats or consumes food in an excessive or greedy way.
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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.

  1. 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.

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

    Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.

  2. 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."

  3. 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 […].

  4. 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.

  1. 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.'

  2. 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.