Gluttony

Pronunciation

• IPA: /É¡lÊŒ.tÉ™n.i/

Origin

Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin gluto.

Full definition of gluttony

Noun

1. The vice of eating to excess.
   Hunger is forgiveable, gluttony is not.
• 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 5, The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite....Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Related terms

• glutton
• gluttonous
• gluttonry