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noun

Glutton n.

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

Fig.: One who gluts himself. "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."

(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

... Vardiello would soon make the matter public, told him to stand at the door until the man with milk and new-made cheese came past, as she wanted to buy a pennyworth of milk. So Vardiello, who was a great glutton, went quickly and seated himself at the door; and his mother showered down from the window above raisins and dried figs for more than half an hour. Whereupon Vardiello, picking them up as fast as he could, cried aloud, "Mother, mother! bring out some baskets; give me some bowls! ...

— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile

... enemy; for you would not only torment my body to death, but ruin my good name; you reproach me as a glutton and a tippler; now all the world that knows me will allow that I am neither the ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... too, when we came to taste them. Altogether this was decidedly the most luxurious supper we had enjoyed for many a day; and Jack said it was out-of-sight better than we ever got on board ship; and Peterkin said he feared that if we should remain long on the island he would infallibly become a glutton or an epicure: whereat Jack remarked that he need not fear that, for he was both already! And so, having eaten our fill, not forgetting to finish off with a plum, we laid ourselves comfortably ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

... England and Germany. Dr. Wankel mentions an interesting prehistoric deposit at Prerau, near Olmutz, amongst the bones of animals belonging to the most ancient Quaternary fauna, such as the mammoth, the cave-bear, the cave-lion, the glutton, and the arctic fox; and amongst clumsy bone and ivory weapons and ornaments he found a human jaw and a femur covered with strip produced by flint hatchets. In 1801 Mr. Cunnington took several skeletons from a barrow near Heytesbury, the skull of one of which had ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... the saloons set out the mock-turtle soup and potato salad, the bull-beef and sour beans as lagniappe to the heavy-laden schooner. The editor remembered that Christ first came eating and drinking, sat with publicans and sinners and was denounced therefore as a wine-bibber and a glutton by the Prohibitionists and other Miss Nancys of Palestine. Still he hesitated. He wanted to do the elegant, but was afraid of making a bad impression. A glance at the dry and moldy crust determined him. He tapped the visitor on ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

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