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GLUTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glutton mean?
• GLUTTON (noun)
The noun GLUTTON has 2 senses:
1. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
2. musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
Familiarity information: GLUTTON used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
glutton; gourmand; gourmandizer; trencherman
Hypernyms ("glutton" is a kind of...):
eater; feeder (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
Derivation:
gluttonize (eat a lot and without restraint)
gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("glutton" is a kind of...):
mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)
Context examples
For years there was no such glutton to take punishment and no more finishing hitter than Harrison, though he was always, as I understand, a slow one upon his feet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Don’t be a glutton, Humphrey,” Maud chided me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He’s a glutton of the first water.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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