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noun
Glutton  n.  
1.
One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2.
Fig.: One who gluts himself. "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
3.
(Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.



verb
Glutton  v. t. & v. i.  To glut; to eat voraciously. (Obs.) "Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine." "Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed."



adjective
Glutton  adj.  Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." "A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days."






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"Glutton" Quotes from Famous Books



... dares not tell me what is wrong; he dares not transmit my orders or translate my censures. And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own unmanliness. - Paul - a German - cook and steward - a glutton of work - a splendid fellow; drawbacks, three: (1) no cook; (2) an inveterate bungler; a man with twenty thumbs, continually falling in the dishes, throwing out the dinner, preserving the garbage; (3) a dr-, well, don't let us say that - but ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... uncontroul'd, And glutton death seems never satisfy'd. Each soft sensation lost in thoughtless rage, And breast to breast, oppos'd in furious war, The fiery Chiefs receive the vengeful steel. O'er lifeless heaps of men the soldiers climb Still eager for the combat, while the ground Made slipp'ry by the ...
— The Prince of Parthia - A Tragedy • Thomas Godfrey

... bee damn'd like the Glutton, may his Tongue be hotter, a horson Achitophel; a Rascally-yea-forsooth-knaue, to beare a Gentleman in hand, and then stand vpon Security? The horson smooth-pates doe now weare nothing but high shoes, and bunches of Keyes ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... Jesus Christ, or those of Mahomet? But some will say, if your brother offends by his intemperate habits, you should abstain altogether, that you may become a good example to him. By the same rule, if my brother is a glutton, I should abstain from food also. Now, I believe with the Apostle, "that all the creatures of God are good," and lawful for us to use; but we are not to abuse them, "but to be temperate in all things," thus acting up to the rule of scripture, and setting a better example ...
— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland

... suppose, would keep me alive, but still one eats meat without being a glutton. I very often regret the want of amusements, and particularly of those which would throw me more among my fellow-creatures. A man is alone when reading, alone when writing, alone when thinking. Even sitting in Parliament he is very much alone, though there ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope


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