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glutton
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The Pardoner's Tale
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** *dainty **fruit-girls Singers with harpes, baudes,* waferers,** *revellers **cake-sellers Which be the very devil's officers, To kindle and blow the fire of lechery, That is annexed unto gluttony.†

gluttony = an instance or habit of consuming too much -- especially eating and drinking too much
O gluttony, full of all cursedness;
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gluttony = the habit of eating or drinking to excess
Looke, how deare, shortly for to sayn, Abought* was first this cursed villainy: *atoned for Corrupt was all this world for gluttony.†

gluttony = an instance or habit of consuming too much -- especially eating and drinking too much
O gluttony!†
wist a man how many maladies Follow of excess and of gluttonies, He woulde be the more measurable* *moderate Of his diete, sitting at his table.†
the shorte throat, the tender mouth, Maketh that east and west, and north and south, In earth, in air, in water, men do swink* *labour To get a glutton dainty meat and drink.†

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
And, now that I have spoke of gluttony, Now will I you *defende hazardry.†

gluttony = an instance or habit of consuming too much -- especially eating and drinking too much

Definitions:

(1) (glutton)
someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much

The 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".
(2) (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.