glutton
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Is glutton a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.Examples: ""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.""; "Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair;"broadly
2. (now rare) The wolverine, Gulo gulo.Examples: "[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 […]."archaic
3. (colloquial) A giant petrel.colloquial
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.Examples: "Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine."; "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.'"archaic
2. (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.Examples: "Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed."; "Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary