glutton

UK /ˈɡlʌtn̩/ US /ˈɡlʌtn̩/
noun 4verb 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.

So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?

noun

1

One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.

2

One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.

"Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."

"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."

3

The wolverine, Gulo gulo.

[A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […].

4

A giant petrel.

verb

1

To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.

Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.

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.'

2

To glut; to eat voraciously.

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.

Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

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