All 7 Uses of
glutton
in
The Pardoner's Tale
- ** *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;
*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.†
- 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
- 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.†
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.