LekhoriLekhoriGluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
"Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.
To glut; to eat voraciously.
From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Ol...
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The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
[A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […].
Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.