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‖ helluo|ˈhɛljuːəʊ|
Also 7 helluoh.
[L. helluo, hēluo a gormandizer.]
1. A glutton, gormandizer; transf. and fig. a greedy devourer.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 102 The insaciablest Helluo, the deuouringest glutton, or the greediest cormorant that is. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature v. 32 They eate like gurmundizing Helluohs. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 425 Thereby making him to be a Helluo and Devourer of Gods. a1734North Exam. iii. vi. §63 (1740) 470 To let an Helluo loose upon the Revenue, which should be too hard for all Retrenchment. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius viii. 184 In this ludicrous way the crier treated that helluo.
2. Zool. A genus of beetles belonging to the family Carybidæ. |