Adjective: glutton
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more glutton |
| Superlative | most glutton |
Sample Sentences
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A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
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So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
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Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard? [1597, William Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV i 3:]
Adjectives inflected like glutton
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
2. The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Verbs referencing "glutton"
Italian Adjectives
ghiotto.