English

Adjective

gluttonous ‎(comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
2. Greedy.

Quotations

• 1607 — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens iii 4

  Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
  And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.

• 1611 — KJV, Matthew 11:19

  Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

• 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

  The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly ... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly" content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid.

• 1891 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Book xvii

  Do the feasters gluttonous feast?

• 1914 — Robert W. Service, The Call

  Look your last on your dearest ones,
  Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
  Swift they go to the ravenous guns,
  The gluttonous guns of War.

• 1929 — H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth

  One day the mail-man found no village there,
  Nor were its folk or houses seen again;
  People came out from Aylesbury to stare -
  Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain
  That he was mad for saying he had spied
  The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

Translations

Related terms

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony