gluttony

English

Etymology

Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/

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Noun

gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)

1. The vice of eating to excess.
   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Synonyms

• the English vice

Antonyms

• temperance

Related terms

• glut
• glutton
• gluttonous
• gluttonry

Translations

the vice of eating to excess

• Arabic: نَهَم m (naham), شَرَه m (šarah), شَرَاهَة f (šarāha), بِطْنَة f (biṭna)
• Armenian: որկրամոլություն (hy) (orkramolutʻyun), շատակերություն (hy) (šatakerutʻyun)
• Belarusian: абжо́рства n (abžórstva)
• Bulgarian: лакоми́я (bg) f (lakomíja), ненаси́тност (bg) f (nenasítnost), чревоуго́дие n (črevougódie)
• Catalan: gola (ca) f
• Cebuano: kahakog
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴食 (zh) (bàoshí)

• Czech: obžerství (cs) n, nenasytnost f
• Danish: fråseri n
• Dutch: vraatzucht (nl)
• Esperanto: glutemeco
• Estonian: aplus (et), ahnus (et)
• Finnish: ylensyönti, mässäily (fi), vatsanpalvonta (fi)
• French: gourmandise (fr) f, gloutonnerie (fr) f
• Galician: gargantoice m, lurpiña f
• Georgian: ნაყროვნება (naq̇rovneba), მსუნაგობა (msunagoba), გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba), ღორმუცელობა (ɣormuceloba), სიწუწკე (sic̣uc̣ḳe)
• German: Völlerei (de) f, Fresssucht (de) f, Gefräßigkeit (de) f
• Greek: λαιμαργία (el) f (laimargía)

  Ancient: γαστριμαργία f (gastrimargía), λαιμαργία f (laimargía)

• Hungarian: torkosság (hu), falánkság (hu)
• Ilocano: buklaw
• Irish: craos m
• Italian: gola (it) f, ghiottoneria (it)
• Japanese: 暴食 (ja) (ぼうしょく, bōshoku), 健啖 (ja) (けんたん, kentan), 大食い (ja) (おおぐい, ōgui)
• Kazakh: жемқорлық (jemqorlyq)
• Korean: 대식(大食) (daesik), 폭식(暴食) (poksik)
• Latin: gula f
• Macedonian: ненаситност f (nenasitnost)
• Nahuatl: xixicuiyotl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fråtseri n

• Persian: پرخوری (fa) (porxori), ژرد (fa) (žard)
• Polish: obżarstwo (pl) n, łakomstwo (pl) n, żarłoczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: gula (pt) n, gulodice (pt) f, gulosice f
• Romanian: voracitate (ro) f, lăcomie (ro) f
• Russian: чревоуго́дие (ru) n (črevougódije), обжо́рство (ru) n (obžórstvo), прожо́рливость (ru) f (prožórlivostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: craos m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: proždrljivost (sh) f, prežderavanje n, neumjerenost (u jelu) (sh) f, neumerenost f, crevougodstvo n

• Slovak: obžerstvo n, nenajedenosť f, nenásytnosť f
• Slovene: požrešnost f, nenasitnost f, lakomnost f
• Spanish: gula (es) f, glotonería (es) f
• Swahili: ulafi (sw) class 14
• Swedish: frosseri (sv) n
• Tagalog: katakawan
• Thai: ตะกละ (th) (dtà-glà)
• Turkish: oburluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: обже́рливість f (obžérlyvistʹ), ненаже́рливість f (nenažérlyvistʹ), обже́рство n (obžérstvo)
• Welsh: glythineb m

See also

• alimentiveness