All 4 Uses of
glutton
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- 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 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(glutton) someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much
The expression: "a glutton for punishment" refers to someone who persist in some activity despite negative consequences (as though loving the punishment)
The expression: "a glutton for whatever" refers to people who like whatever a lot -- such that "a glutton for sunshine" loves sunshine. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.