Glutton

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.
  • n. A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something: a glutton for punishment.
  • n. See wolverine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
  • n. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
  • n. One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
  • n. A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo), of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverine. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
  • v. To glut; to eat voraciously.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
  • n. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
  • n. A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidæ, 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.
  • adj. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
  • v. To glut; to eat voraciously.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who indulges to excess in eating, or in eating and drinking; one who gorges himself with food; a gormandizer.
  • n. One who indulges in anything to excess; a greedy person.
  • n. In zoöl.: A popular name of the wolverene, Gulo luscus or arcticus, the largest and most voracious species of the family Mustelidæ.
  • Of or belonging to a glutton; gluttonous.
  • To eat or indulge the appetite to excess; gormandize.
  • To overfill, as with food; glut.
  • n. In pugilism, one who takes a great deal of punishment before he is beaten.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
  • n. musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
  • Antonym
    ascetic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    eater    feeder    mustelid    musteline    musteline mammal   
    Variant
    wolverine    wolverene    carcajou   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gormandizer    gluttonous    greedy    gormandizing    glut    sensualist    gourmand    hog    gorger    pig   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Sybarite    gormand    epicure    drunkard    lecher    spendthrift    sluggard    gastronome    sensualist    swindler