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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess;
[syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman]

2. musteline mammal of northern Eurasia;
[syn: glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glutton \Glut"ton\, a. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glutton \Glut"ton\, v. t. & i. To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine. --Lovelace. [1913 Webster] Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See Glut.] [1913 Webster] 1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: One who gluts himself. [1913 Webster] Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [1913 Webster +PJC] Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wolverene \Wol`ver*ene"\, Wolverine \Wol`ver*ine"\, n. [From Wolf, with a dim suffix; prob. so called from its supposed wolfish qualities.] 1. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [1913 Webster +PJC] 2. A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

glutton n 1: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman] 2: musteline mammal of northern Eurasia [syn: glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "glutton": Brillat-Savarin, Cape polecat, Lucullus, ape, bar, bear, belly-god, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, connoisseur of food, consumer, coon, cormorant, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, ferret, flesh-eater, foumart, fruitarian, gannet, gastronome, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, groundhog, guinea pig, guttler, hedgehog, herbivore, high liver, hog, hungry mouth, husky eater, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, monk, monkey, mousehound, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, opossum, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, pig, plant-eater, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, predacean, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, trencherman, trencherwoman, vegetarian, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Glutton (Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning "to shake out," "to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.