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glut⋅ton

1  [gluht-n]
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1. a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
2. a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something: a glutton for work; a glutton for punishment.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME glutun < OF glouton < L gluttōn- (s. of gluttō), var. of glūtō glutton, akin to glūtīre to gulp down

Synonyms:
1. gourmand; gastronome; chowhound.

glut⋅ton

2  [gluht-n]
–noun
the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
Origin:
1665–75; trans. of G Vielfrass, equiv. to viel much + frass eating, deriv. of fressen (of animals) to eat
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glut·ton   (glŭt'n)   
n.  

  1. A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.

  2. A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something: a glutton for punishment.

  3. See wolverine.


[Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōn-.]
wol·ver·ine   (wŏŏl'və-rēn', wōōl'və-rēn')   
n.  A solitary, burrowing carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo) of northern forest regions, related to the weasel and having a heavyset body, short legs, dark fur, and a bushy tail. Also called carcajou, glutton, skunk bear.

[Probably from wolf.]
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Word Origin & History

glutton 
c.1225, from O.Fr. gluton, from L. gluttonem, acc. of glutto "overeater," formed from gluttire "to swallow," from gula "throat," from PIE *gel-.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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