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Definition: Glutton |
GluttonNoun1. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess. 2. Wolverine of northern Eurasia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glutton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Glutton \Glut"ton\, noun. [Old English glotoun, glotun, French glouton, from Latin gluto, glutto. See Glut.]. (references) |
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Satire | GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Glutton (The). Vitelius, the Roman emperor (15-69), reigned from January 4 to December 22, A.D. 69. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GLUTTON. A term used by bruisers to signify a man who will bear a great deal of beating. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: GluttonSynonyms: gourmand (n), trencherman (n), wolverine (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Diner; hippophage; glutton. |
Gluttony | Epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome; gourmet; a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glutton |
| English words defined with "glutton": Belly-god ♦ Gormandizer, Greedy-gut, Gulist, Gully gut, Guttler ♦ Swallower. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glutton": DUMB GLUTTON ♦ Lucullus sups with Lucullus ♦ Porcus Literarum ♦ soul ♦ Vitellius. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glutton": goliard. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glutton" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Russian (gourmet). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Glutton (1920) A Glutton for Punishment (1920) The Glutton (1918) | |
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Henry David Thoreau | He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. |
Josh Billings | The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Gluttony punishes the glutton. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
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| "Glutton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glutton" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
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Expressions using "glutton": be a glutton for hard work ♦ glutton and drunkard ♦ Glutton bird ♦ glutton for ♦ glutton for work ♦ South American glutton. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glutton | 24 |
bowl glutton | 9 |
diet free glutton | 3 |
corn glutton | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "glutton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | volverin (wolverene), tahmaqar (greedy person, insatiable person), njeri i pangopur (locust, wolf), llupës (gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, guttler, guzzler, voracious), hamës (eater, gormandiser). (various references) | |
Arabic | النهم, اللقام حيوان نهم, الشره (gluttonous, insatiability). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ненаситник (horse-leech, locust, wolf), лакомник, лакомец (gobbler, gourmand, hog, wolverine). (various references) | |
Czech | nenasyta (gourmand), nenažranec (greedy guts), hltoun (pig), žrout. (various references) | |
Farsi | ادم پرخور, شکم پرست (Gourmand), دله (Scab). (various references) | |
Finnish | ahmatti (gormandizer), ahma (wolverine). (various references) | |
French | gourmand (gluttonous). (various references) | |
German | vielfraß (gourmand, wolverine), fresser (devourer, eater, overeater). (various references) | |
Greek | κοιλιόδουλοσ, λιμάρης (big eater), λαίμαργοσ (gluttonous, greedy, lickerish, ravenous), αδηφάγοσ (ravenous, surfeiter, voracious). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זוללן (gourmand), זולל (devourer, gourmand), אכלן (gourmand), גרגרן (gormandizer), בלען (gobbler, gourmand), בלעם, בלע (gourmand). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rozsomák (wolverine), nagyevő ember (greedy-gut), nagybélű ember, falánk ember (gobbler, greedy-gut). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang rakus. (various references) | |
Italian | ghiottone (gormandiser, gormandizer, gourmand, pig), mangione (big eater, devourer, gormandizer, overeater). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 食いしん坊 (gourmand), 健啖家 (gormandizer), 大食漢 (great eater), 大食らい . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいしょくかん (great eater), おおぐらい, くいしんぼう (gourmand), けんたんか (gormandizer). (various references) | |
Manx | glutterey (gormandizer, guzzler). (various references) | |
Norwegian | jerv, fråtser. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttonglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glutão (edacious, gluttonous, gobbler, lickerish), comilão (devourer, gluttonous, trencherman). (various references) | |
Romanian | gurmand (food-minded, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, greedy, hog, pecker), gãman (gluttonous, greedy), mâncãtor (eater, feeder), mâncãcios (gluttonous), lingãu (bootlicker, boot-licker, flunkey, lickspittle, minion, sponge, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toady), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), flãmânzilã, calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, greedy, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion). (various references) | |
Russian | обжора (guttler). (various references) | |
Scottish | gragair, geòcair. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proždrljivac (trencherman), proždrljiv (edacious, gluttonous, lupine, ravenous, voracious), nezasitan, nezasit (insatiable), žderavac (carcajou, wolverene, wolverine). (various references) | |
Spanish | glotón (gluttonous, gourmand). (various references) | |
Swedish | frossare (gormandizer, reveller). (various references) | |
Thai | คนตะกละ (gourmand). (various references) | |
Turkish | obur (cormorant, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy, guzzler, hog, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious), hevesli kimse, doymayan kimse. (various references) | |
Turkmen | iюdдmen, iяermen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ненажера (belly-god, cormorant, gargantua, gourmand, guzzler). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người háu ăn, kẻ tham ăn người ham đọc. (various references) | |
Welsh | glwth (couch, gluttonous), bolgi (gourmand). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | comede, comedi, comedis, gluto, porcorum, porcos. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | goulafre. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | gourmant. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PaV gar mequsoV kai pornokopoV ptwceusei kai endusetai dierrhgmena kai rakwdh paV upnwdhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia vacantes potibus et dantes symbola consumentur et vestietur pannis dormitatio |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For thei tendende to drinkis, and yiuende scot, shul ben wastid, and napping shal be clad with clothis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang palahubog ug ang ulitan modangat sa kawalad-on; Ug ang pagkahingatulog magapasaput sa usa ka tawo sa mga nuog. |
| Croatian | jer pijanica i izjelica osiromaše i pospanac se oblaèi u krpe. |
| Danish | thi Dranker og Frådser forarmes, Søvn giver lasede Klæder. |
| Dutch | Want een zuiper en vraat zal arm worden; en de sluimering doet verscheurde klederen dragen. |
| Finnish | Sillä juomari ja syömäri köyhtyy, ja unteluus puettaa ryysyihin. |
| French | Car l`ivrogne et celui qui se livre à des excès s`appauvrissent, Et l`assoupissement fait porter des haillons. |
| German | denn die Säufer und Schlemmer verarmen, und ein Schläfer muß zerrissene Kleider tragen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | sebab mereka akan menjadi miskin. Jika engkau tidur saja, maka tak lama lagi engkau akan berpakaian compang-camping. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena seorang pemabuk dan gelojoh akan kepapaan kelak, dan suka mengantuk itu mengenakan pakaian compang-camping kepada orang. |
| Italian | perché l'ubriacone e il ghiottone impoveriranno e il dormiglione si vestirà di stracci. |
| Maori | No te mea ka tutuki tahi te tangata inu raua ko te tangata kakai ki te rawakore; he tawhetawhe hoki te kakahu a te momoe mo te tangata. |
| Norwegian | For drankeren og fråtseren blir fattig, og søvn klær mannen i filler. |
| Portuguese | Porque o beberrão e o comilão caem em pobreza; e a sonolência cobrirá de trapos o homem. |
| Rumanian | Cqci beyivul wi cel ce se dedq la kmbuibare sqrqcesc, wi ayipirea te face sq poryi zdrenye. |
| Russian | РПФПНХ ЮФП РШСОЙГБ Й РТЕУЩЭБАЭЙКУС ПВЕДОЕАФ, Й УПОМЙЧПУФШ ПДЕОЕФ Ч ТХВЙЭЕ. |
| Swedish | + |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glutton": gluttonies, gluttonous, gluttonously, gluttonousness, gluttonousnesses, gluttons, gluttony. (additional references) | |
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"Glutton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glashtyn, Glenton, glotton, Glouston, Glushko, glution, gluton, glutten, glutun, Glytona, Guitton, Gutcheon, gutton, lutton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-n-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: glout, gluon, ungot. | |
-3 letters: glut, gout, long, lout, lung, lunt, tolu, tong, tout, tung, unto. | |
-4 letters: gnu, got, gul, gun, gut, log, lot, lug, nog, not, nut, out, tog, ton, tot, tug, tun, tut. | |
-5 letters: go, lo, no, nu, on, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-n-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gluttons, gluttony. | |
+3 letters: gluttonies, gluttonous, outlasting, outtalking, outtelling, rouletting. | |
+4 letters: deglutition, glutathione, gratulation, outbleating, outhustling, outplotting, postulating, subtotaling. | |
+5 letters: battleground, buttonholing, conglutinate, congratulate, deglutitions, footfaulting, gastrulation, glutathiones, gluttonously, gratulations, multimegaton, outwrestling, silhouetting, subtotalling. | |
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