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1. (n.) glutton
a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
2. glutton
a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something:
a glutton for work.
Etymology: (1175–1225; < OF glouton < L gluttōnem, acc. of gluttō,glūtō glutton, akin to glūtīre to gulp down)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman
a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
2. (noun) glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine
musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) glutton
gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing
2. (noun) glutton
one who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer
3. (noun) glutton
fig.: One who gluts himself
4. (noun) glutton
a carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia
5. glutton
to glut; to eat voraciously
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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glutton
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well."
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Sense: a person who eats too much
That child is fat because he is such a glutton.
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 Afrikaans: vraat, gulsigaard |
 Arabic: أكول |
 Bulgarian: лакомник |
 Brazilian: glutão |
 Czech: žrout |
 German: der Vielfraß |
 Danish: ædedolk |
 Greek: λαίμαργος |
 Spanish: glotón, comilón |
 Estonian: õgard |
 Farsi: آدم پرخور |
 Finnish: ahmatti |
 French: glouton/-onne |
 Hebrew: זוללן |
 Hindi: पेटू |
 Croatian: proždrljviac |
 Hungarian: falánk |
 Indonesian: orang rakus |
 Icelandic: átvagl, mathákur |
 Italian: ghiottone, goloso |
 Japanese: 大食家 |
 Korean: 대식가 |
 Lithuanian: rajūnas, ėdrūnas |
 Latvian: rīma |
 Malay: pelahap |
 Dutch: slokop |
 Norwegian: storeter/-spiser |
 Polish: żarłok |
 Persian: آدم پرخور |
 Pashto: كيډو، خيټو |
 Portuguese: comilão |
 Romanian: mâncău |
 Russian: обжора |
 Slovak: nenásytník, žrút |
 Slovenian: požeruh |
 Serbian: izelica |
 Swedish: storätare, matvrak |
 Thai: คนตะกละ |
 Turkish: obur |
 Taiwanese: 貪吃的人 |
 Ukrainian: ненажера |
 Urdu: پیٹو آدمی |
 Vietnamese: kẻ tham ăn |
 Chinese: 贪吃的人 |
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