gluttony
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)
- The vice of eating to excess.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- 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?
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the vice of eating to excess
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