English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Old French glutonie gloton -ie Latin glutio glutton -y
Pronunciation [ edit ] gluttony (countable and uncountable plural gluttonies
The vice of eating to excess .
1921 Ben Travers , chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest Doubleday, Page & Company , published 1925 , →OCLC The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. [ …] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] the vice of eating to excess
Arabic: نَهَم m ( naham ) , شَرَه m ( šarah ) , شَرَاهَة f ( šarāha ) , بِطْنَة f ( biṭna )
Armenian: որկրամոլություն (hy) ( orkramolutʻyun ) , շատակերություն (hy) ( šatakerutʻyun )
Belarusian: абжо́рства n ( abžórstva )
Bulgarian: лакоми́я (bg) f ( lakomíja ) , ненаси́тност (bg) f ( nenasítnost ) , чревоуго́дие n ( črevougódie )
Catalan: gola (ca) f
Cebuano: kahakog
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴食 (zh) ( bàoshí )
Czech: obžerství (cs) n nenasytnost f
Danish: fråseri n
Dutch: vraatzucht (nl)
Esperanto: glutemeco
Estonian: aplus (et) , ahnus (et)
Finnish: ylensyönti mässäily (fi) , vatsanpalvonta (fi)
French: gourmandise (fr) f gloutonnerie (fr) f
Galician: gargantoice m lurpiña f
Georgian: ნაყროვნება ( naq̇rovneba ) , მსუნაგობა ( msunagoba ) , გაუმაძღრობა ( gaumaʒɣroba ) , ღორმუცელობა ( ɣormuceloba ) , სიწუწკე ( sic̣uc̣ḳe )
German: Völlerei (de) f Fresssucht (de) f Gefräßigkeit (de) f
Greek: λαιμαργία (el) f ( laimargía )
Ancient: γαστριμαργία f ( gastrimargía ) , λαιμαργία f ( laimargía )
Hungarian: torkosság (hu) , falánkság (hu)
Ilocano: buklaw
Irish: craos m
Italian: gola (it) f ghiottoneria (it)
Japanese: 暴食 (ja) ( ぼうしょく, bōshoku ) , 健啖 (ja) ( けんたん, kentan ) , 大食い (ja) ( おおぐい, ōgui )
Kazakh: жемқорлық ( jemqorlyq )
Korean: 대식(大食) ( daesik ) , 폭식(暴食) ( poksik )
Latin: gula f
Macedonian: ненаситност f ( nenasitnost )
Nahuatl: xixicuiyotl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fråtseri n
Persian: پرخوری (fa) ( porxori ) , ژرد (fa) ( žard )
Polish: obżarstwo (pl) n łakomstwo (pl) n żarłoczność (pl) f
Portuguese: gula (pt) n gulodice (pt) f gulosice f
Romanian: voracitate (ro) f lăcomie (ro) f
Russian: чревоуго́дие (ru) n ( črevougódije ) , обжо́рство (ru) n ( obžórstvo ) , прожо́рливость (ru) f ( prožórlivostʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: craos m
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: proždrljivost (sh) f prežderavanje n neumjerenost (u jelu) (sh) f neumerenost f crevougodstvo n
Slovak: obžerstvo n nenajedenosť f nenásytnosť f
Slovene: požrešnost f nenasitnost f lakomnost f
Spanish: gula (es) f glotonería (es) f
Swahili: ulafi (sw) class 14
Swedish: frosseri (sv) n
Tagalog: katakawan
Thai: ตะกละ (th) ( dtà-glà )
Turkish: oburluk (tr)
Ukrainian: обже́рливість f ( obžérlyvistʹ ) , ненаже́рливість f ( nenažérlyvistʹ ) , обже́рство n ( obžérstvo )
Welsh: glythineb m
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