Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.
- noun A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To eat or indulge the appetite to excess; gormandize.
- To overfill, as with food; glut.
- noun One who indulges to excess in eating, or in eating and drinking; one who gorges himself with food; a gormandizer.
- noun One who indulges in anything to excess; a greedy person.
- noun In zoöl.: A popular name of the wolverene, Gulo luscus or arcticus, the largest and most voracious species of the family Mustelidæ.
- Of or belonging to a glutton; gluttonous.
- noun In pugilism, one who takes a great deal of punishment before he is beaten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- noun Fig.: One who gluts himself.
- noun (Zoöl.) A carnivorous mammal (
Gulo gulo formerlyGulo luscus ), of the weasel familyMustelidæ , about the size of a large badger; called alsowolverine ,wolverene andcarcajou . It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. - noun (Zoöl.) the giant fulmar (
Ossifraga gigantea ); -- called alsoMother Carey's goose , andmollymawk . - adjective Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
- verb obsolete To glut; to eat voraciously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
gluttonous ;greedy ; gormandizing. - noun One who
eats voraciously ,obsessively , or toexcess ; agormandizer . - noun figuratively One who
consumes voraciously ,obsessively , or toexcess - noun zoology A
carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo), of the familyMustelidæ , about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; thewolverine . It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. - verb obsolete To
glut ; to eat voraciously.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
- noun musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gourmand has taken on an even fancier ring than gourmet, while the word glutton can be applied only to someone who eats an enormous amount of food at one sitting — usually cheap food, and with the standard of what constitutes “enormous” revised upward each year for obvious reasons.
Hard to Swallow 2007
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Gourmand has taken on an even fancier ring than gourmet, while the word glutton can be applied only to someone who eats an enormous amount of food at one sitting — usually cheap food, and with the standard of what constitutes “enormous” revised upward each year for obvious reasons.
Hard to Swallow 2007
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Gourmand has taken on an even fancier ring than gourmet, while the word glutton can be applied only to someone who eats an enormous amount of food at one sitting — usually cheap food, and with the standard of what constitutes “enormous” revised upward each year for obvious reasons.
Hard to Swallow 2007
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- If you are a habitual consumer of little cakes, it will jump out in front of you and call you, “fatty!” and you will be plagued every day of your life by being called a glutton and a pig.
Urban Legends 2006
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In a society where food is scarce, the glutton is a wasteful menace.
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He was a carpenter after all, and I am told that carpenters in those days chopped their own trees and milled the wood by hand. and he was semitic. and he was called a glutton and a drunkard by his detractors, so maybe he had a belly and a red nose?
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The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, "The Cloister and the Hearth," was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness.
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The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, _The Cloister and the Hearth_, was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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She is a little bit of a glutton is my Jane, and she overate herself at tea at the Singletons '.
A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884
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The god of a glutton is his belly; of a lover his lust; and so every man serves that to which he is in bondage; and has his heart there where his treasure is.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
ruzuzu commented on the word glutton
See wolverine.
March 14, 2011