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Definition of glutton in English: gluttonnoun ˈɡlʌt(ə)nˈɡlətn 1An excessively greedy eater. Example sentencesExamples - After all, barbecue is best with fatty meats, and the food here looks more designed for calorie-counting nouveaus than Atkins gluttons.
- Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best.
- I know, I know, a gluten free recipe wouldn't hurt us gluten gluttons, but with an impending lay-off and potential grad school fees, I'm really not all that excited on spending money we might need for rent next month.
- Starving men may think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the famished, like titillations.
- Any scenes involving food should show the overweight characters as revolting gluttons, with food running out of their mouths and down their shirts as the other people in the room watch in stunned horror.
- Surely gluttons shouldn't encourage overeating.
- The expatriate is a glutton, cannot deny himself the sweet and hot, aware that his food may not be served tomorrow, that he must take advantage of this invitation and eat well at the host's table.
- In any event, unless he's a glutton, he couldn't ‘put away’ 30 kilos each of beef, pork, steaks, shrimp and more within two months.
- I thought gluttons were supposed to enjoy themselves.
- Inuit did have the concept of gluttony, but an Inuit glutton was instead marked by the tendency to withhold food from others.
- They didn't ask any questions about chocolate, which accounts for her not being lumped in with the gluttons.
- Fast-food companies made an important discovery: consumers were reluctant to buy two boxes of, say, popcorn because they feared people might think they were gluttons, but they were happy to pay a little more for jumbo-sized boxes.
- So my advice to fellow gluttons is to skip a meal.
- As noted above, gluttons should drink the milk and not let it go to waste.
- There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
- Kept alive today more by photographers than painters, it began to emit its last gasps as a vehicle for Pop Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to revel in a consumer mania that made those Netherlandish gluttons look abstemious.
- They would have us believe that these tubes are just kinda put into the ducks mouths and these ducks are just happy gluttons swallowing it all down voluntarily.
- How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
- Though the Romans emulated all things Greek, it is said that ‘they became gluttons, rather than gourmets’.
- Bears also hibernate during the winter, as most of us wish to do and they awake in spring as gluttons ingesting anything they can get their hands on - not unlike many offensive linemen in the CFL.
Synonyms gourmand, gourmandizer, overeater, gorger, binge eater, big eater informal pig, greedy pig, hog, gannet, greedy guts, gutbucket, human dustbin, gobbler, guzzler Northern Irish informal gorb North American informal chowhound rare trencherman - 1.1 A person who is excessively fond of something.
he's a glutton for adventure Example sentencesExamples - To his dying day, in spite of his busy work load, he was a glutton for work.
- All the tech you covered will come to naught unless immediate attention is given to electrical generation and conservation, because solid-state device technologies are all power gluttons.
- I was an adolescent numb to yuletide cheer, a glutton for material sustenance, mainly of the toy variety.
- No, I am not a glutton for drama, even if it does tend to pique my appetite.
- Quito, who had only run at Haydock just five days earlier, is a glutton for work and is set to return to York next month when he may run twice at the prestigious royal fixture.
- These players were risk gluttons and there was absolutely no protest or discipline from the marketplace, until recently.
- During all of this I remained a glutton for books gastronomic.
- She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
- I've become a glutton for bodybuilding knowledge, devouring whatever books, magazines and research I can find on training, nutrition and volition.
- To run it (the government) was well beyond the powers of such a glutton for work and government as Philip: it overwhelmed his subnormal successors.
- As a glutton for hockey, give me the quarterfinals.
- But then Harry, a glutton for novelty, will drink from any passing puddle or unusual container that comes his way.
- Whatever his appetites in other areas, he has always been a glutton for cricket.
- He's a real terrier, a glutton for work, and has been very enthusiastic all season.
- Garnett has readily accepted the bait - he's a glutton for assuming responsibility - going so far as to deploy his now-infamous war armament analogy in explaining what he'll bring to tonight's contest.
- Still, I'm always a glutton for opportunities to add just one more little thing or polish the text just a little more.
- So will our cities all end up as energy gluttons dominated by rats, starlings and cockroaches?
- And if you are a glutton for pain, the acting is just as bad as the dialogue.
- ‘We're attention gluttons,’ he commented, winking.
- Even if you leave alone Americans' status as the world's worst energy gluttons, you could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil through a population shift alone.
2 old-fashioned term for wolverine
Phrases A person who is always eager to undertake hard or unpleasant tasks. Example sentencesExamples - A glutton for punishment, she also signed up for a Masters in Modern Drama Studies and, because of the way the modules fell, she actually graduated the Masters programme before graduating the B.A.
- And you thought I was a glutton for punishment?
- There are even do-it-yourself waxing kits, but unless you're a glutton for punishment, it's pretty hard to put yourself through such torture and it can get very messy.
- We are obviously gluttons for punishment, as we decided to follow that up with a full-blown tour around the shops - we needed to buy a present for a friend, use some vouchers that we'd received as a present and Akra needed new slippers.
- If you're a real glutton for punishment, drop me a line and I'll send it on to you.
- Yesterday I was thinking, with all the offers I turned down, all the other houses I could have designed for, I must have some really weird kind of death wish or be a total glutton for punishment.
- Aren't all these modern, stressed-out mothers simply gluttons for punishment?
- And we really are gluttons for punishment, since we do this every year.
- But some women seem to be gluttons for punishment.
- From fit 20-year-olds just hoping to drop the last five kilos to 60-year-olds wanting to stay in shape and challenge themselves, it seems there is no shortage of gluttons for punishment.
Origin Middle English: from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto(n-) related to gluttire 'to swallow', gluttus 'greedy', and gula 'throat'. Definition of glutton in US English: gluttonnounˈɡlətnˈɡlətn 1An excessively greedy eater. Example sentencesExamples - They didn't ask any questions about chocolate, which accounts for her not being lumped in with the gluttons.
- Any scenes involving food should show the overweight characters as revolting gluttons, with food running out of their mouths and down their shirts as the other people in the room watch in stunned horror.
- The expatriate is a glutton, cannot deny himself the sweet and hot, aware that his food may not be served tomorrow, that he must take advantage of this invitation and eat well at the host's table.
- Though the Romans emulated all things Greek, it is said that ‘they became gluttons, rather than gourmets’.
- How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
- There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
- Inuit did have the concept of gluttony, but an Inuit glutton was instead marked by the tendency to withhold food from others.
- Bears also hibernate during the winter, as most of us wish to do and they awake in spring as gluttons ingesting anything they can get their hands on - not unlike many offensive linemen in the CFL.
- I thought gluttons were supposed to enjoy themselves.
- Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best.
- Fast-food companies made an important discovery: consumers were reluctant to buy two boxes of, say, popcorn because they feared people might think they were gluttons, but they were happy to pay a little more for jumbo-sized boxes.
- After all, barbecue is best with fatty meats, and the food here looks more designed for calorie-counting nouveaus than Atkins gluttons.
- In any event, unless he's a glutton, he couldn't ‘put away’ 30 kilos each of beef, pork, steaks, shrimp and more within two months.
- So my advice to fellow gluttons is to skip a meal.
- As noted above, gluttons should drink the milk and not let it go to waste.
- I know, I know, a gluten free recipe wouldn't hurt us gluten gluttons, but with an impending lay-off and potential grad school fees, I'm really not all that excited on spending money we might need for rent next month.
- Surely gluttons shouldn't encourage overeating.
- Kept alive today more by photographers than painters, it began to emit its last gasps as a vehicle for Pop Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to revel in a consumer mania that made those Netherlandish gluttons look abstemious.
- Starving men may think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the famished, like titillations.
- They would have us believe that these tubes are just kinda put into the ducks mouths and these ducks are just happy gluttons swallowing it all down voluntarily.
Synonyms gourmand, gourmandizer, overeater, gorger, binge eater, big eater - 1.1 A person who is excessively fond of or always eager for something.
Example sentencesExamples - No, I am not a glutton for drama, even if it does tend to pique my appetite.
- All the tech you covered will come to naught unless immediate attention is given to electrical generation and conservation, because solid-state device technologies are all power gluttons.
- To his dying day, in spite of his busy work load, he was a glutton for work.
- So will our cities all end up as energy gluttons dominated by rats, starlings and cockroaches?
- To run it (the government) was well beyond the powers of such a glutton for work and government as Philip: it overwhelmed his subnormal successors.
- I was an adolescent numb to yuletide cheer, a glutton for material sustenance, mainly of the toy variety.
- During all of this I remained a glutton for books gastronomic.
- As a glutton for hockey, give me the quarterfinals.
- ‘We're attention gluttons,’ he commented, winking.
- Even if you leave alone Americans' status as the world's worst energy gluttons, you could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil through a population shift alone.
- Still, I'm always a glutton for opportunities to add just one more little thing or polish the text just a little more.
- And if you are a glutton for pain, the acting is just as bad as the dialogue.
- Whatever his appetites in other areas, he has always been a glutton for cricket.
- But then Harry, a glutton for novelty, will drink from any passing puddle or unusual container that comes his way.
- She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
- I've become a glutton for bodybuilding knowledge, devouring whatever books, magazines and research I can find on training, nutrition and volition.
- Quito, who had only run at Haydock just five days earlier, is a glutton for work and is set to return to York next month when he may run twice at the prestigious royal fixture.
- Garnett has readily accepted the bait - he's a glutton for assuming responsibility - going so far as to deploy his now-infamous war armament analogy in explaining what he'll bring to tonight's contest.
- These players were risk gluttons and there was absolutely no protest or discipline from the marketplace, until recently.
- He's a real terrier, a glutton for work, and has been very enthusiastic all season.
2 another term for wolverine, especially the European species
Phrases A person who is always eager to undertake hard or unpleasant tasks. Example sentencesExamples - We are obviously gluttons for punishment, as we decided to follow that up with a full-blown tour around the shops - we needed to buy a present for a friend, use some vouchers that we'd received as a present and Akra needed new slippers.
- But some women seem to be gluttons for punishment.
- Yesterday I was thinking, with all the offers I turned down, all the other houses I could have designed for, I must have some really weird kind of death wish or be a total glutton for punishment.
- A glutton for punishment, she also signed up for a Masters in Modern Drama Studies and, because of the way the modules fell, she actually graduated the Masters programme before graduating the B.A.
- There are even do-it-yourself waxing kits, but unless you're a glutton for punishment, it's pretty hard to put yourself through such torture and it can get very messy.
- From fit 20-year-olds just hoping to drop the last five kilos to 60-year-olds wanting to stay in shape and challenge themselves, it seems there is no shortage of gluttons for punishment.
- Aren't all these modern, stressed-out mothers simply gluttons for punishment?
- And you thought I was a glutton for punishment?
- If you're a real glutton for punishment, drop me a line and I'll send it on to you.
- And we really are gluttons for punishment, since we do this every year.
Origin Middle English: from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto(n-) related to gluttire ‘to swallow’, gluttus ‘greedy’, and gula ‘throat’. |