glutton
1[gluht-n]
- a 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.
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Origin of glutton
11175–1225; Middle English glutun < Old French glouton < Latin gluttōn- (stem of gluttō), variant of glūtō glutton, akin to glūtīre to gulp down
Synonyms for glutton
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2[gluht-n]
- the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
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Origin of glutton
21665–75; translation of German Vielfrass, equivalent to viel much + frass eating, derivative of fressen (of animals) to eat
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Contemporary Examples of glutton
The Daily Pic: The Italian was such a glutton for order, he could have been the first conceptualist.
Historical Examples of glutton
Yet the glutton was a glutton for danger as well as for fish.
The Game of Rat and DragonCordwainer Smith
A man must be a glutton for tomfoolery if he could not be satisfied with that.'
Lord KilgobbinCharles Lever
You'll want a beefsteak for your eye and not for your stomach, you glutton!
My New CurateP.A. Sheehan
Though a magnificent host, the elder Beckford was no glutton.
The History of the Caliph VathekWilliam Beckford
The wolverene, or glutton, carries off the palm for cunning from all the other animals.
The Western WorldW.H.G. Kingston
glutton
1- 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 somethinga glutton for punishment
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Word Origin for glutton
C13: from Old French glouton, from Latin glutto, from gluttīre to swallow
glutton
2- another name for wolverine
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Word Origin for glutton
C17: from glutton 1, apparently translating German Vielfrass great eater
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Word Origin and History for glutton
early 13c., from Old French gluton (Modern French glouton), from Latin gluttonem (nominative glutto) "overeater," formed from gluttire "to swallow," from gula "throat," from PIE *gwele- (see glut (v.)).
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