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English
Etymology
Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)
- The vice of eating to excess.
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest: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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the vice of eating to excess
- Arabic: نَهَم m (naham), شَرَه m (šarah), شَرَاهَة f (šarāha), بِطْنَة f (biṭna)
- Armenian: որկրամոլություն (hy) (orkramolutʻyun), շատակերություն (hy) (šatakerutʻyun)
- Belarusian: абжо́рства n (abžórstva)
- Bulgarian: лакоми́я (bg) f (lakomíja), ненаси́тност (bg) f (nenasítnost), чревоуго́дие n (črevougódie)
- Catalan: gola (ca) f
- Cebuano: kahakog
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 暴食 (zh) (bàoshí)
- Czech: obžerství (cs) n, nenasytnost f
- Danish: fråseri n
- Dutch: vraatzucht (nl)
- Esperanto: glutemeco
- Estonian: aplus (et), ahnus (et)
- Finnish: ylensyönti, mässäily (fi), vatsanpalvonta (fi)
- French: gourmandise (fr) f, gloutonnerie (fr) f
- Galician: gargantoice m, lurpiña f
- Georgian: ნაყროვნება (naq̇rovneba), მსუნაგობა (msunagoba), გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba), ღორმუცელობა (ɣormuceloba), სიწუწკე (sic̣uc̣ḳe)
- German: Völlerei (de) f, Fresssucht (de) f, Gefräßigkeit (de) f
- Greek: λαιμαργία (el) f (laimargía)
- Ancient: γαστριμαργία f (gastrimargía), λαιμαργία f (laimargía)
- Hungarian: torkosság (hu), falánkság (hu)
- Ilocano: buklaw
- Irish: craos m
- Italian: gola (it) f, ghiottoneria (it)
- Japanese: 暴食 (ja) (ぼうしょく, bōshoku), 健啖 (ja) (けんたん, kentan), 大食い (ja) (おおぐい, ōgui)
- Kazakh: жемқорлық (jemqorlyq)
- Korean: 대식(大食) (daesik), 폭식(暴食) (poksik)
- Latin: gula f
- Macedonian: ненаситност f (nenasitnost)
- Nahuatl: xixicuiyotl
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fråtseri n
- Persian: پرخوری (fa) (porxori), ژرد (fa) (žard)
- Polish: obżarstwo (pl) n, łakomstwo (pl) n, żarłoczność (pl) f
- Portuguese: gula (pt) n, gulodice (pt) f, gulosice f
- Romanian: voracitate (ro) f, lăcomie (ro) f
- Russian: чревоуго́дие (ru) n (črevougódije), обжо́рство (ru) n (obžórstvo), прожо́рливость (ru) f (prožórlivostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: craos m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: proždrljivost (sh) f, prežderavanje n, neumjerenost (u jelu) (sh) f, neumerenost f, crevougodstvo n
- Slovak: obžerstvo n, nenajedenosť f, nenásytnosť f
- Slovene: požrešnost f, nenasitnost f, lakomnost f
- Spanish: gula (es) f, glotonería (es) f
- Swahili: ulafi (sw) class 14
- Swedish: frosseri (sv) n
- Tagalog: katakawan
- Thai: ตะกละ (th) (dtà-glà)
- Turkish: oburluk (tr)
- Ukrainian: обже́рливість f (obžérlyvistʹ), ненаже́рливість f (nenažérlyvistʹ), обже́рство n (obžérstvo)
- Welsh: glythineb m
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