glutton
noun
glut·ton ˈglə-tᵊn 
1
a
: one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking
b
: one that has a great capacity for accepting or enduring something
a glutton for punishment
2
: wolverine sense 1a
Synonyms
- cormorant
- gorger
- gormandizer
- gourmand
- hog
- overeater
- pig
- stuffer
- swiller
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Example Sentences
he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake
Recent Examples on the Web So bib up, chow down, and let your inner glutton romp. —
Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023 Or the glutton who wants to buy all the fish in the market—a symbol of someone who is totally undemocratic. —Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022 But there's no need to be a glutton for punishment, either. —Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022 Either that, or the Saint Mary’s basketball coach is a glutton for punishment. —Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022 Todd Orlando is apparently a glutton for punishment. —Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021 For a former television celebrity who is a glutton for public attention, the decision extends by six months a political starvation diet imposed since January by a social media blackout and his departure from the White House. —Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021 Betty Draper, as a character, was a glutton for attention, and she was consistently starved of it. —Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020 No, we’ve been told, the state shouldn’t go out of its way to make the disadvantaged whole or bring law and order to an economy controlled by gamblers, gluttons, and cheats. —Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 3 June 2020 See More
Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023 Or the glutton who wants to buy all the fish in the market—a symbol of someone who is totally undemocratic. —Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022 But there's no need to be a glutton for punishment, either. —Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022 Either that, or the Saint Mary’s basketball coach is a glutton for punishment. —Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022 Todd Orlando is apparently a glutton for punishment. —Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021 For a former television celebrity who is a glutton for public attention, the decision extends by six months a political starvation diet imposed since January by a social media blackout and his departure from the White House. —Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021 Betty Draper, as a character, was a glutton for attention, and she was consistently starved of it. —Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020 No, we’ve been told, the state shouldn’t go out of its way to make the disadvantaged whole or bring law and order to an economy controlled by gamblers, gluttons, and cheats. —Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 3 June 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English glotoun, from Anglo-French glutun, glotun, from Latin glutton-, glutto; akin to Latin gluttire to swallow, gula throat, Old English ceole
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing glutton
Kids Definition
glutton
noun glut·ton ˈglət-ᵊn
1
: one that eats too much
2
: wolverine
gluttonous adjective
ˈglət-nəs
-ᵊn-əs
gluttonously adverb
glutton
noun
as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake Synonyms & Similar Words
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- pig
- hog
- overeater
- gorger
- cormorant
- trencherman
- gourmand
- stuffer
- feaster
- swiller
- guzzler
- muncher
- gormandizer
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dieter
- picker
- nibbler