glutton
Meanings
Plural: gluttons
Noun
- a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
- musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
- The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
- A giant petrel.
Adj
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
Verb
- To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
- To glut; to eat voraciously.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Synonyms
belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedyguts, Gulo gulo, guttle, helluo, hog, Homer Simpson, pig, slow belly, trencherman, wolverine
Scrabble Score: 8
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