单词 | gluttonous |
释义 | gluttonousadj. 1. Given to excess in eating; characterized by, or of the nature of, gluttony. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > gluttonous freckc950 egernec1200 gluttonous1340 glutterous1382 lecherous1480 pampereda1529 glutton1532 draffsacked1548 gourmand1557 pampering1562 guttish1567 ingluvious1569 belly-fed1574 lurching1577 gulling1579 lickerous-mouthed1579 gully-gut1582 gormandizing1596 belly-devout1599 guttling1633 helluous1641 gulous1657 belly-proud1675 gut-led1682 gulligutted1694 poke pudding1705 ungodly1746 ventripotent1823 ventripotential1824 guttlesome1861 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 790 Ȝe ben glotounius gle glad for to haunte, & han no mesure on molde of mete ne of drynke. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. met. vi. 16 Ne seke thow nat, with a glotonous hond to stryne and presse the stalkes of the vyne in the ferst somer sesoun. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 13 A man ouȝte be temperat in eting and drinking, and not be glotenose. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cvi. 36 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 167 Gluttonous they flesh in desert craue. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvi. xxxvii. 611 It is..not the kind of meate, but the gluttonous affect that hurts. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. 185 Gluttonous..Animals,..have always overgrown Livers. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 220 Although the Wolf is the most gluttonous of quadrupeds,..yet his rapacity does not exceed his cunning. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. ii. i. 91 Though a Norman was not gluttonous, he was epicurean. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. v. 72 After one of his gluttonous suppers. 2. transferred. Excessively greedy or insatiable of (or †after) something. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] lustfulc893 yevereOE covetousa1300 unmeasurablea1398 lustsomea1400 over-lustya1500 coveting1526 kitish1566 inexpleble1569 salt1598 over-desirous1647 voraginousa1652 sitient1656 voragious1665 gluttonous1671 ingorgeous1679 voracious1746 edacious1819 snack1883 desperatea1958 1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xviii. 112 My intention is no other than to make Soules, as it were, gluttonous, after the obtaining of so high a good. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxi. 125 O my dear! you must be gluttonous of grief in your solitary hours. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) iii. 61 Extravagance becomes gluttonous of marvels. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 4 Philip the Prudent, as he grew older and feebler in mind and body seemed to become more gluttonous of work. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 188 That scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. ΚΠ 1600 W. Vaughan Nat. & Artific. Direct. Health (1633) 19 Pastery..is rather gluttonous then healthy, not easie to digest. Derivatives ˈgluttonously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adverb] > gluttonously gluttonly1340 gluttonously1483 ingluviously1574 excessively1590 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. iijv And we ete so gredyly & gloutonnously that otherwhyle we caste it vp agayn and make vomytes. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xcix. sig. ggij/2 The sowe..etyth & deuouryth glotenously [a1398 BL Add. glotonliche] all maner stynkynge thynges and vnclene. 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. D Thou saist (vile yongman) they haue arguments To proue it lawfull gluttonously to feede. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 331 So insatiable an appetite to mans flesh, that they gluttonously eat it raw. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 418 The Esquimaux, however gluttonously they may eat [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1340 |
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