Both Uses of
glutton
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- We all know Pippa is a secret glutton.†
Chpt 15 *glutton = 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
- Tom offers cakes and Ann, who has never refused a morsel of food in her life, declines as a well-born, properly bred lady should, lest she seem a glutton.†
Chpt 26
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.