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English

Adjective

gluttonous (comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

  • Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
    • ✤ Synonyms: gluttonish, gluttonly
    • ✤ Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.1
  • Greedy.
    • ✤ Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,/And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.2
    • ✤ [“]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.3
    • ✤ 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!4
    • ✤ Look your last on your dearest ones,/Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:/Swift they go to the ravenous guns,/The gluttonous guns of War.5
    • ✤ One day the mail-man found no village there,/Nor were its folk or houses seen again;/People came out from Aylesbury to stare –/Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain/That he was mad for saying he had spied/The great hill’s gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.6
    • ✤ My dreams were largely based on the works of Dickens (his Mugby Junction stories), Thackeray (Jeames on the Gauge Question), and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories I kept devouring with gluttonous abandon.7

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: glut‧ton‧ous

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Footnotes

  1. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:19: ↩

  2. c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]: ↩

  3. 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Higher Laws”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 231: ↩

  4. 1865 October 28, Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, New York, N.Y.: […] [Peter Eckler], →OCLC, stanza 24, page 29: ↩

  5. 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call: ↩

  6. 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth: ↩

  7. 2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68: ↩