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Glutton may refer to:

One who over-indulges in and over-consumes food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. See Gluttony
Another name for the wolverine

Derived from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow gluttony is the over-indulgence and Over-consumption of food drink or intoxicants

Dictionary

glutton

-adjective

gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

-noun

One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
(figuratively) One who gluts himself.
(zoology) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo), of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverine. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

-verb

(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.

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