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English Dictionary: glutton	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for glutton
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glutton n a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess Synonym(s): glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman musteline mammal of northern Eurasia Synonym(s): glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, a. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. [bd]Glutton souls.[b8] --Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, v. t. & i. To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.] Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine. --Lovelace. Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See {Glut}.] 1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. 2. Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo luscus}), of the family {Mustelid[91]}, 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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Glutton (Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning "to shake out," "to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.