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gluttonous

adj
/ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/US

Etymology

From Middle English glotenose, glotenouse, glotonos, glotonous, glotounius, glotynous, from Middle French glotonos; equivalent to glutton + -ous.

  1. derived from glotonos
  2. inherited from glotenose

Definitions

  1. Given to excessive eating

    Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.

    • Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

  2. Greedy.

    • Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, / And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.
    • ["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid.
    • Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers!

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Derived

gluttonousness, overgluttonous, ungluttonous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gluttonous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA