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Meanings of
glutton
(gluttons)
in English
Portuguese
carcaju
Back to the meaning
Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia.
wolverine
Gulo gulo
Portuguese
carcaju
Portuguese
rapa de tacho
Catalan
escuracassoles
Back to the meaning
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess.
gourmand
trencherman
gourmandizer
Portuguese
rapa de tacho
Usage of
gluttons
in English
1
Here and there would be found a few hard-hearted and unsympathetic
gluttons
.
2
The passions then are gambolling cubs; not the ravaging
gluttons
they grow to.
3
The
gluttons
often look with the greatest contempt upon the slaves of liquor.
4
Fantastic, unpractical, they were
gluttons
for the romantic, the recondite, and the dainty.
5
And the festival lasted many days, though plenty made
gluttons
of them all.
6
But some are
gluttons
and others think only of fine clothes.
7
For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied
gluttons
.
8
One might as well not eat because some men are
gluttons
.
9
All who succeed are
gluttons
for work, toiling whilst others play and sleep.
10
We've saved the lives for a time of several hundred
gluttons
.
11
In the pursuit of lynxes and wolverines or
gluttons
,
fire-arms had to be used.
12
They were both of them
gluttons
for the fruits and signs of their success.
13
Two Doors Down Monday, BBC Two, 10pm Some people are just
gluttons
for punishment.
14
They are optical
gluttons
,
feasting and fattening on the misfortunes of their fellow beings.
15
They were hideous
gluttons
,
gorging themselves when occasion offered with the rapacity of vultures.
16
They are impatient
gluttons
,
and often begin tearing their prey before it is dead.
Other examples for "gluttons"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
gluttons
glutton
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
such gluttons
terrible gluttons
young gluttons
annual gluttons
canine gluttons
More collocations
Translations for
gluttons
Portuguese
carcaju
rapa de tacho
guloso
Catalan
escuracassoles
golafre
glot
golut
Gluttons
through the time
Gluttons
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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