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glutton
1[ gluht-n ]
noun
- a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
Synonyms: chowhound, gastronome, gourmand
- a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something:
a glutton for work;
a glutton for punishment.
glutton
2[ gluht-n ]
noun
- the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
glutton
1/ ˈɡlʌtən /
noun
- a person devoted to eating and drinking to excess; greedy person
- ironic.a person who has or appears to have a voracious appetite for something
a glutton for punishment
glutton
2/ ˈɡlʌtən /
noun
- another name for wolverine
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Derived Forms
- ˈgluttonous, adjective
- ˈgluttonously, adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glutton1
Origin of glutton2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glutton1
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Example Sentences
The last time I made it, this glutton for punishment asked his significant other to grade it.
The Daily Pic: The Italian was such a glutton for order, he could have been the first conceptualist.
For while he can be as diverting as the greatest glutton for mirth desires, he has all the machinery of dejection too.
I see the tiny drops spurt out, lapped up by the glutton as soon as they appear.
At Glutton Mill the character of the scenery changes with the geological nature of the country.
Most high and mighty Czar of all flesh, ceaseless reducer of empires, unfathomable glutton in the whole realms of nature.
I was like a glutton before a table piled high with delicacies and with plenty of time to spare.
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