All 4 Uses
glutton
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Gluttons, tall, long legs.†
Chpt 5 *gluttons = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much; or people who persist in an activity even though it has negative consequences; or people who love something mentioned
- (He gobbles gluttonously with turkey wattles) Bubbly jock†
Chpt 15gluttonously = in the manner of someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much
- Serpents too are gluttons for woman's milk.†
Chpt 15gluttons = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much; or people who persist in an activity even though it has negative consequences; or people who love something mentioned
- 210 Mr Bloom in the meanwhile kept dodging about in the vicinity of the cobblestones near the brazier of coke in front of the corporation watchman's sentrybox who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.†
Chpt 16glutton = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much; or someone who persists in an activity even though it has negative consequences; or someone who loves a thing mentioned
Definitions:
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(glutton) someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too muchThe expression: "a glutton for punishment" usually refers to someone who persists in some activity despite negative consequences, but it can also be used to stress that someone loves something as in "a glutton for sunshine".
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Gluttony is an instance or a habit of eating or drinking like a glutton.
Much more rarely, glutton can reference a kind of wolverine in northern Eurasia.