gluttonous

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From glutton +‎ -ous.

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/
Hyphenation: glut‧ton‧ous

AdjectiveEdit

gluttonous (comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:19:
  Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Greedy.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
  Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
  And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.
- 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Higher Laws”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 231:
  ["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, “Birds of Passage: Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 185:
  Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers!
- 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:
  Look your last on your dearest ones,
  Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
  Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.
- 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:
  One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

given to excessive eating; prone to overeating

Albanian: hamës (sq)
Arabic: نَهِم‎ (nahim), شَرِه‎ (šarih)
Armenian: որկրամոլ (hy) (orkramol)
Bulgarian: ненаситен (bg) m (nenasiten), чревоугоднически m (črevougodničeski)
Catalan: golós
Chinese:
Cantonese: 為食／为食 (yue) (wai⁶ sik⁶)

Mandarin: 貪嘴／贪嘴 (zh) (tānzuǐ), 暴食的 (zh) (bàoshí-de), 饞／馋 (zh) (chán)
Czech: nenasytný
Dutch: vraatzuchtig (nl)
Estonian: ablas (et), ahne (et)
Finnish: ahnas (fi)
French: glouton (fr), gourmand (fr), goulu (fr)
Friulian: golôs
Galician: comellón (gl), lambón (gl), lambaz, galdrumeiro
German: gefräßig (de), unersättlich (de)
Greek: λαίμαργος (el) (laímargos)
Ancient: γαστρίμαργος (gastrímargos), λαίμαργος (laímargos), λίχνος (líkhnos), ἀδηφάγος (adēphágos)
Japanese: 飽くなき (あくなき, akunaki)
Kabuverdianu: laskadu, guloze, gulós
Latin: edax (la), gulosus, lurcinābundus
Maori: pukukai, homanga, honekai, pūkino
Ottoman Turkish: اوبور‎ (obur), قورساقسز‎ (kursaksız)
Portuguese: guloso (pt), glutão (pt)
Romanian: mâncăcios (ro)
Russian: прожо́рливый (ru) (prožórlivyj), ненасы́тный (ru) (nenasýtnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: craosach, gionach
Spanish: glotón (es), goloso (es)
Turkish: obur (tr)

greedy

Albanian: hamës (sq)
Arabic: جَشِع‎ (jašiʕ)
Armenian: անհագ (hy) (anhag), ագահ (hy) (agah)
Bulgarian: алчен (bg) m (alčen), ненаситен (bg) m (nenasiten)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貪婪／贪婪 (zh) (tānlán)
French: avide (fr), vorace (fr), goulu (fr)
German: unersättlich (de), gierig (de), verfressen (de)
Greek: λαίμαργος (el) (laímargos), αδηφάγος (el) (adifágos)
Ancient: ἀδηφάγος (adēphágos)
Japanese: 貪欲な (ja) (たんよくな, tan'yoku-na)
Kabuverdianu: laskadu, gulós, guloze
Maori: homanga
Portuguese: guloso (pt)
Russian: ненасы́тный (ru) (nenasýtnyj), жа́дный (ru) (žádnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: gionach, sanntach
Spanish: codicioso (es), ávido (es)
Turkish: açgözlü (tr), obur (tr)