Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose god is his belly.

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Examples

  • But lest these lucubrations should seem to be those of a mere glutton and gastrolater, -- of one like the gourmand of old time, who longed for the neck of an ostrich or crane that the pleasure of swallowing dainty morsels might be as protracted as possible, -- let me assume a vegetable,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

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  • A glutton.

    May 16, 2008

  • One whose God is his belly - so says the Century Dictionary.

    December 6, 2010