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Glutton vs Overeater - What's the difference?

glutton | overeater |

As nouns the difference between glutton and overeater

is that glutton is one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer while overeater is one who eats too much; particularly one who does so regularly.

As an adjective glutton

is gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

As a verb glutton

is (archaic) to glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.

glutton

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller):
    • A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
  • * 1597 , i 3 :
    • So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
    Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
    • Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
  • (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
  • * 1705 , George Granville, The British Enchanters :
    • "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
  • * :
    • Hope is a subtle Glutton / He feeds upon the Fair
  • * 1878 , :
    • "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 ."
  • The wolverine, Gulo gulo , of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

    • Synonyms

    * (voracious eater) see

    See also

    * glutton for punishment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
  • *(and other bibliographic detailes), (Lovelace)
    • Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.
  • * 1915 , Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor :
    • 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.'
  • (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
  • * (and other bibliographic detailes), (Drayton)
    • Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
  • * 1598 —
    • Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

    Related terms

    * gluttonous * gluttonously * gluttony

    References

    Mustelids

    overeater

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who eats too much; particularly one who does so regularly.