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Webster 1913 Edition
Glutton
1.
One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2.
Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons
in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.
Glutton bird
(Zool.)
, the giant fulmar (
Ossifraga gigantea
); – called also Mother Carey’s goose
, and mollymawk
. Glut′ton
,Adj.
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
“Glutton souls.” Dryden.
A
glutton
monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.
Glut′ton
,Verb.
T.
& I.
To glut; to eat voraciously.
[Obs.]
Gluttoned
at last, return at home to pine. Lovelace.
Whereon in Egypt
gluttoning
they fed. Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Glutton
GLUT'TON
,Noun.
1.
One eager of any thing to excess. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
2.
In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the N. of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet,but has short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is names from its voracious appetite.Definition 2024
glutton
glutton
English
Adjective
glutton (comparative more glutton, superlative most glutton)
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
- (Can we date this quote?) Fuller:
- 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?
- So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
- (Can we date this quote?) Fuller:
Noun
glutton (plural gluttons)
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
- (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
- 1705, George Granville, The British Enchanters:
- "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
- 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."
- 1705, George Granville, The British Enchanters:
- The wolverine, Gulo gulo, of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Synonyms
- (voracious eater): see Wikisaurus:glutton
Translations
one who eats voraciously
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one who gluts himself
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wolverine — see wolverine
See also
Verb
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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Lovelace
- Gluttoned 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.'
- (Can we date this quote?), Lovelace
- (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
- (Can we date this quote?), Drayton
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Drayton