glutton
/ˈɡlʌt(ə)n
/noun
1An excessively greedy eater.Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best....
- Surely gluttons shouldn't encourage overeating.
- They would have us believe that these tubes are just kinda put into the ducks mouths and these ducks are just happy gluttons swallowing it all down voluntarily.
Synonyms
gourmand, gourmandizer, overeater, gorger, binge eater, big eater
informal pig, greedy pig, hog, gannet, greedy guts, gutbucket, human dustbin, gobbler, guzzler
Northern Irish informal gorb
North American informal chowhound
rare trencherman
1.1A person who is excessively fond of something: he’s a glutton for adventure...
- He's a real terrier, a glutton for work, and has been very enthusiastic all season.
- Garnett has readily accepted the bait - he's a glutton for assuming responsibility - going so far as to deploy his now-infamous war armament analogy in explaining what he'll bring to tonight's contest.
- She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
2 old-fashioned term for wolverine.
Phrases
a glutton for punishment
Derivatives
gluttonize
- When this union is formed and a little lysin is added, the white corpuscles are induced to gluttonize again.
- When it came time to celebrate the Supper and to share the meal together the rich separated themselves from the poor, and gluttonised themselves on what they had brought for the meal.
- The first and eighth line reveals that a human heart is cruel and gluttonizes all materials without swallowing carefully.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto(n-) related to gluttire 'to swallow', gluttus 'greedy', and gula 'throat'.