glutton — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

   Przykłady

   A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.

   So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?

Rzeczownik

1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

   Przykłady

   Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.

2. One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.

   Użycie

   • broadly

   Przykłady

   "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."

   "A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton."

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   Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair;

3. The wolverine, Gulo gulo.

   Użycie

   • archaiczne

   Przykłady

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   [A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […].

4. A giant petrel.

   Użycie

   • potoczne

Czasownik

1. To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.

   Użycie

   • archaiczne

   Przykłady

   Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.

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   In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'

2. To glut; to eat voraciously.

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

   Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.

   Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

Rzeczownik

1. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

   Synonimy

   gourmandgourmandizer

   Terminy szersze

   eaterfeeder

2. musteline mammal of northern Eurasia

   Synonimy

   Gulo gulowolverine

   Terminy szersze

   musteline mammalmustelidmusteline