• (RP, GA) IPA: /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/

gluttonous

1. Given to excessive eating#Noun|eating; prone#Adjective|prone to overeating#Noun|overeating.
   • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 11:19

     Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

2. Greedy.
   • 1607 — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens iii 4

     Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
     And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.

   • 1854 August 8, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Higher Laws”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, OCLC 4103827 ↗, page 231 ↗:

     ["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid.

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “Birds of Passage: Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], OCLC 1514723 ↗, page 185 ↗:

     Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers!

   • 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:

     Look your last on your dearest ones,
     Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
     Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.

   • 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:

     One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony

• French: glouton, gourmand, goulu
• German: gefräßig, unersättlich
• Portuguese: guloso
• Russian: прожо́рливый
• Spanish: glotón, goloso

• French: avide, vorace, goulu
• German: unersättlich, gierig, verfressen
• Portuguese: guloso
• Russian: ненасы́тный
• Spanish: codicioso, ávido