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English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English glotien / glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter / glotir / glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”).[1] Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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glut (plural gluts)

  1. An excess, too much.
    Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus
    Antonyms: lack, shortage
    a glut of the market
    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
      A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
    • 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
    • 2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired‎[2]:
      “The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO. The company is looking into other uses for its crop.
    • 2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36:
      As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.
  2. That which is swallowed.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 588–589:
      And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
  3. Something that fills up an opening.
    Synonym: clog
  4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
    • 2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39:
      The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
  5. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.[3]
  6. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.[4]
  7. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  8. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A block used for a fulcrum.
  9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
  10. (UK, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
    • 2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal‎[3]:
      Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

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Verb

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glut (third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted)

  1. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
    to glut one's appetite
  2. (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
  3. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
    • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42:
      And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “glut”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “glut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  3. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Glut”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
  4. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Glut”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Danish

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Etymology

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Perhaps Derived from Middle Low German klut (“lump”).

Noun

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glut c (singular definite glutten, plural indefinite glutter)

  1. (rare, poetic) an adorable young girl

Declension

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Declension of glut
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative glut glutten glutter glutterne
genitive gluts gluttens glutters glutternes

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic version of gluti (“to swallow”, transitive verb).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡlut/
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: glut

Interjection

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glut

  1. gulp!
    • 1962, Raymond Schwartz, “2:1”, in Kiel akvo de l' rivero [Like water from the river], 2. edition, La Laguna: Régulo, published 1963, page 238, lines 9–10:
      Li trinkadis labore. Glut…glut…glut… Ĉu li eltenos?
      He drank hard. Gulp…gulp…gulp… Will he hold out?

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Further reading

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: glut

Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūtenlbor.
Polish glut

    Learned borrowing from Latin glūten. Doublet of gluten and glutyna.

    Noun

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    glut m inan (diminutive glutek)

    1. (colloquial) goo (semi-solid substance)
    2. (colloquial or dialectal, Near Masovian, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship) booger (mucus)
      Synonyms: babol, gil, koza, smark, śpik
    3. (Łowicz) synonym of sopel lodu (“icicle”)
    Declension
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    Declension of glut
    singular plural
    nominative glut gluty
    genitive gluta/glutu glutów
    dative glutowi glutom
    accusative glut gluty
    instrumental glutem glutami
    locative glucie glutach
    vocative glucie gluty

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    glut m pers

    1. (Łowicz, Gągolin Południowy) synonym of smarkacz
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    adjective

    Etymology 2

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      Inherited from Old Polish glót. Compare German Gelöte.

      Noun

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      glut m inan

      1. (obsolete, firearms) small lead or iron shot (ammunition) used in a blunderbuss or gun (cannon)
        Synonym: siekaniec
      Declension
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      Declension of glut
      singular plural
      nominative glut gluty
      genitive glutu glutów
      dative glutowi glutom
      accusative glut gluty
      instrumental glutem glutami
      locative glucie glutach
      vocative glucie gluty
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      noun
      verb

      Further reading

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      • “glut”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “glut”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish)
      • Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “glut”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
      • Władysław Matlakowski (1892), “glut”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 5
      • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “glut”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 197
      • Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “glut”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 30
      • Halina Świderska (1929), “glut”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 98

      Volapük

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from German Glut.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ɡlut/
      • Rhymes: -ut
      • Hyphenation: glut

      Noun

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      glut (genitive gluta, plural gluts)

      1. glow (clarification of this definition is needed)

      Declension

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      Declension of glut
      Singular Plural
      Nominative glut gluts
      Genitive gluta glutas
      Dative glute glutes
      Accusative gluti glutis
      Predicative1 glutu glutus
      Vocative o glut o gluts
      1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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