Glutton

Adjective

 * 1) gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
 * "A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days." -Fuller.
 * 1) * 1597 — William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3
 * So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy 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.
 * 1)  A carnivorous mammal, 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."

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

Thesaurus
Brillat-Savarin, Cape polecat, Lucullus, ape, bar, bear, belly-god, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, connoisseur of food, consumer, coon, cormorant, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, ferret, flesh-eater, foumart, fruitarian, gannet, gastronome, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, groundhog, guinea pig, guttler, hedgehog, herbivore, high liver, hog, hungry mouth, husky eater, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, monk, monkey, mousehound, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, opossum, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, pig, plant-eater, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, predacean, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, trencherman, trencherwoman, vegetarian, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

Etymology
gloton:, gluton: < gluto:.

Noun

 * Arabic: أكال, شره, نهم
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 暴食者, 饞嘴, 馋嘴,
 * Czech: žrout, nenasyta
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, Nimmersatt
 * Greek: λαίμαργος, αδηφάγος
 * Hungarian: hasimádó


 * Icelandic: átvagl, mathákur, svelgur
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 食いしん坊, 健啖家
 * Meru:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: чревоугодник,, гурман
 * Serbian: ždera
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: తిండిపోతు


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: αχόρταγος


 * Swahili: walafi


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 貂熊
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 貂熊, クズリ
 * Russian: росомаха
 * Spanish: hambrón