gluttonous

English

Etymology

From Middle English glotenose, glotenouse, glotonos, glotonous, glotounius, glotynous, from Middle French glotonos; equivalent to glutton +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

gluttonous (comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.

   Synonyms: gluttonish, gluttonly

   • 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.

2. 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 terms

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony

Translations

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), garoso (Colombia)
• Turkish: obur (tr)
• Ukrainian: ненаже́рливий (nenažérlyvyj)

greedy — see also 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)
• Galician: lurco m, gorxón (gl) m, lanfreán m, lurpio m, ofegante m
• 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)