glutton
1a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something: a glutton for work;a glutton for punishment.
Origin of glutton
1Other words for glutton
Words that may be confused with glutton
- gluten, glutton
Words Nearby glutton
Other definitions for glutton (2 of 2)
the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
Origin of glutton
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How to use glutton in a sentence
The last time I made it, this glutton for punishment asked his significant other to grade it.
The food critic gets critiqued: What Tom Sietsema learned in a year of pandemic home cooking | Tom Sietsema | July 14, 2021 | Washington PostThe Daily Pic: The Italian was such a glutton for order, he could have been the first conceptualist.
For while he can be as diverting as the greatest glutton for mirth desires, he has all the machinery of dejection too.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. LucasI see the tiny drops spurt out, lapped up by the glutton as soon as they appear.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreAt glutton Mill the character of the scenery changes with the geological nature of the country.
Most high and mighty Czar of all flesh, ceaseless reducer of empires, unfathomable glutton in the whole realms of nature.
Poems of The Third Period | Friedrich SchillerI was like a glutton before a table piled high with delicacies and with plenty of time to spare.
The Blue Germ | Martin Swayne
British Dictionary definitions for glutton (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɡlʌtən) /
a person devoted to eating and drinking to excess; greedy person
often ironic a person who has or appears to have a voracious appetite for something: a glutton for punishment
Origin of glutton
1Derived forms of glutton
- gluttonous, adjective
- gluttonously, adverb
British Dictionary definitions for glutton (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɡlʌtən) /
another name for wolverine
Origin of glutton
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