Gluttonous vs Voracious - What's the difference?
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And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: 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. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: 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 — , *: 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. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
* 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
* 1867 , , ch. 45:
* 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
* 1922 , , ch. 7:
* 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, "
Voracious is a synonym of gluttonous.
As adjectives the difference between gluttonous and voracious
is that gluttonous is given to excessive eating; prone to overeating while voracious is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.gluttonous
English
Quotations
{{timeline, 1600s=1607 1611, 1800s=1854 1891, 1900s=1914 1929}} * 1607 — (William Shakespeare), iii 4 *: Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: 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. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: 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 — , *: 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.
voracious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
- The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
- Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
- If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
- Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.