| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| glutton |
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| SYLLABICATION: | glut·ton |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  gl t n |
| NOUN: | 1. A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink. 2. A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something: a glutton for punishment. 3. See wolverine. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, from Latin glutt , gluttn-.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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