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单词 gluttonous
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gluttonousadj.

Brit. /ˈɡlʌtənəs/, /ˈɡlʌtn̩əs/, U.S. /ˈɡlət(ə)nəs/
Forms: Middle English glotounius, glotonous, glotenous, Middle English glotenose, glotynous, glouttonnous, 1500s glottonous, (1600s glutenous, glutinous,) 1500s– gluttonous.
Etymology: < glutton n. + -ous suffix; no corresponding form is recorded in Old French.
1. Given to excess in eating; characterized by, or of the nature of, gluttony.
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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.
figurative.a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 33 Gluttonous death will instantly unjoynt My body, and my soule, and I shall sleepe a space.
2. transferred. Excessively greedy or insatiable of (or †after) something. Also absol.
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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.
3. Of food: ? Fit for gluttons. Obsolete.
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1600 W. Vaughan Nat. & Artific. Direct. Health (1633) 19 Pastery..is rather gluttonous then healthy, not easie to digest.

Derivatives

ˈgluttonously adv.
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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).
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