Gluttony

Glut′ton-y

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Gluttonies

(#)

.

[OE.

glotonie

, OF.

glotonie

,

gloutonnie

.]

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

Their sumptuous

gluttonies

, and gorgeous feasts.

Milton.

Gluttony

GLUT'TONY

,

Noun.

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.

1.

Luxury of the table.

Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.

2.

Voracity of appetite.

gluttony

English

Noun

gluttony ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)

The vice of eating to excess.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
  The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Related terms

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glutton
gluttonous
gluttonry

Translations

the vice of eating to excess

Arabic: نَهَم m ‎(naham), شَرَه m ‎(šarah), شَرَاهَة f ‎(šarāha)
Bulgarian: лакомия (bg) f ‎(lakomija), ненаситност (bg) f ‎(nenasitnost), чревоугодие n ‎(črevougodie)
Catalan: gola (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴食 (zh) ‎(bàoshí), 貪食 (zh), 贪食 (zh) ‎(tānshí)
Czech: obžerství (cs) n
Danish: fråseri n
Dutch: vraatzucht (nl)
Esperanto: glutemeco
Finnish: ylensyönti, mässäily (fi)
French: gourmandise (fr) f, gloutonnerie (fr) f
Georgian: ნაყროვნება ‎(naq̇rovneba), მსუნაგობა ‎(msunagoba), გაუმაძღრობა ‎(gaumaʒɣroba), ღორმუცელობა ‎(ɣormuceloba), სიწუწკე ‎(sic̣uc̣ḳe)
German: Völlerei (de) f, Fresssucht f, Gefräßigkeit f
Greek: λαιμαργία (el) f ‎(laimargía)

Hungarian: torkosság (hu), falánkság (hu)
Italian: gola (it) f, ghiottoneria (it)
Japanese: 暴食 ‎(ぼうしょく, bōshoku), 健啖 ‎(けんたん, kentan), 大食い ‎(おおぐい, ōgui)
Latin: gula f
Persian: پرخوری (fa) ‎(porxori), ژرد (fa) ‎(žard)
Polish: obżarstwo (pl) n, łakomstwo n, żarłoczność (pl) f
Portuguese: gula (pt) n
Romanian: voracitate (ro) f, lăcomie (ro) f
Russian: чревоуго́дие (ru) n ‎(črevougódije), обжо́рство (ru) n ‎(obžórstvo), прожо́рливость (ru) f ‎(prožórlivostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: craos m
Serbo-Croatian: proždrljivost (sh) f, prežderavanje n, neumjerenost (u jelu) (sh) f, neumerenost, crevougodstvo
Spanish: gula (es), glotonería (es) f
Swedish: frosseri (sv) n
Turkish: oburluk (tr)

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