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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

... impurity he seems unscrupulously negligent. I have heard that he is a glutton and a wine-bibber. I have heard that he despises ...

— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus

... be cock-house at footer, I hope," he began, "and next term Scaife will show the School what he can do at racquets; but I want more. I'm a glutton. How about work, eh? Lot o' slacking last term. Is it honest? You fellows cost your people a deal of money. And it's well spent, if, if you tackle everything in school life as you tackled Mr. Damer's last ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... fear, glutton," retorted Kelly. "There's more meat than any seventeen giants in the fairy tales could ever eat ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... back, Whacketty-whack on calf and shin; And the lay-brothers said, with a wag of the head, "Ain't he the glutton for discipline!" ...

— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor

... commanded Arethas with his troops to advance into Assyria, and with them he sent twelve hundred soldiers, the most of whom were from among his own guard, putting two guardsmen in command of them, Trajan and John who was called the Glutton, both capable warriors. These men he directed to obey Arethas in everything they did, and he commanded Arethas to pillage all that lay before him and then return to the camp and report how matters stood with the Assyrians with regard to military ...

— History of the Wars, Books I and II (of 8) - The Persian War • Procopius

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