glutton
Plural: gluttons
Noun
- A person who eats or consumes excessive amounts.
- a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
- musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
- One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
- One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
- The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
- A giant petrel.
Adj
- Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
Verb
- To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
- To glut; to eat voraciously.
Examples
- My opponent was a GLUTTON for points, taking every double-letter score.
- Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Synonyms
gourmand, gourmandizer, Gulo gulo, trencherman, wolverine, Homer Simpson, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorger, gormandizer, greedyguts, guttle, helluo, hog, pig, slow belly
Scrabble Score: 8
glutton: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglutton: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glutton: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary