Crossword clues for glutton
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wolverene \Wol`ver*ene"\, Wolverine \Wol`ver*ine"\, n. [From Wolf, with a dim suffix; prob. so called from its supposed wolfish qualities.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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- (3) "to swallow" (see glut (v.)).
Wiktionary
gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. n. 1 One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer. 2 (context figuratively English) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess 3 The wolverine, ''Gulo gulo'', of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. v
1 (context archaic English) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity. 2 (context obsolete English) To glut; to eat voraciously.
WordNet
n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: gourmand, trencherman]
wolverine of northern Eurasia [syn: Gulo gulo, wolverine]
Wikipedia
Glutton may refer to:
- One who over-indulges in and over-consumes food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. See Gluttony
- Another name for the wolverine
Usage examples of "glutton".
With each ladleful of soup that went into his stomach, with each mouthful of bread or meat crushed between his gums, with each glass of cider or wine that flowed through his gullet he thought he was regaining something of his own property, getting back a little of his money which all those gluttons were devouring, saving in fact a portion of his own means.
Would they become stupid from this, turning into dull-witted gluttons that whiled away their hours with toys provided by the planetary guardian?
Then she shaked her head and sayd, Away fool as thou art, thinkest thou to play the glutton here and to looke for dainty meats where so long time hath not been seene any smoke at all?
Malipiero's draw-room, one evening, when my opinion about her was asked, that she could please only a glutton with depraved tastes.
Would her ladyship be so good as to tell me in what I have appeared to her to be a mere glutton?
Instead of hiding in her room and trying to keep both her dignity and reputation intact, she wished she’d gone to all the dances, flirted in the gardens, and banqueted like a glutton.
Max was absolutely elated to discover that she'd been a glutton for Plum Crunchies cereal.
Several of the hospital's top Diagnosticians had examined it, finding signs of strain in certain areas of the patient's body plating that partly explained its discomfort—a being who was largely exoskeletal, lazy, and something of a glutton could only put on weight from the inside.
The detective gazed at the cash as longingly as a glutton might stare at a custard pie, as intensely as a satyr might ogle a naked blonde.
Were there always liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weaklings, deceivers, cowards, enviers, gluttons, drunkards, misers, sycophants, butchers, slanderers, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites and fools?
Half an hour later he was sitting in front of the blank screen, thinking he had to be a glutton for punishment.
If it was the same eye all the time it was a glutton for punishment.
They're on that habitable planet which, being the gluttons for punishment they seemed to be when I first met them, they have named Ravel.
Not so long ago, Leonard and I, like gluttons for punishment, drove over to Grovetown.
This bred a pause of action, a pleasure stop, whilst that delicate glutton, my nether-mouth, as full as it could hold, kept palating, with ex-quisite relish, the morsel that so deliciously ingorged it.