glutton
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).[1][2] The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡlʌt(ə)n/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: glut‧ton
- Rhymes: -ʌtən
Adjective
[edit]glutton (comparative more glutton, superlative most glutton)
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3:
- So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?
Noun
[edit]glutton (plural gluttons)
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
- (by extension) One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
- 1705, George Granville, The British Enchanters:
- "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
- 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."
- a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Hope is a subtle glutton”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 15:
- Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair;
- (now rare) The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
- 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section 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 […] .
- (colloquial) A giant petrel.
Synonyms
[edit]- (voracious eater): see Thesaurus:glutton
Translations
[edit]one who eats voraciously
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one who gluts himself
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wolverine — see wolverine
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]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.'
- (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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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “glutton”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “glutton” in Duden online
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