'Glutton' definitions:
Definition of 'glutton'
From: WordNet
noun
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman]
noun
Definition of 'Glutton'
From: GCIDE
- Glutton \Glut"ton\, a. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glutton'
From: GCIDE
- Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See Glut.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: One who gluts himself. [1913 Webster]
- Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly {Gulo luscus}), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea}); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glutton'
From: GCIDE
- Glutton \Glut"ton\, v. t. & i. To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine. --Lovelace. [1913 Webster]
- Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'glutton'
From: GCIDE
- Wolverene \Wol`ver*ene"\, Wolverine \Wol`ver*ine"\, n. [From Wolf, with a dim suffix; prob. so called from its supposed wolfish qualities.]
- 1. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly {Gulo luscus}), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glutton'
From: 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.