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gluttonism en · NOUN

Etymology

From glutton + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a glutton.
    • Pliny calls the second of these brothers, nepotum omnium altissimus gurges; "the deepest gulph of the time," as to high feeding and helluation, or professional gluttonism. 1820, Ange Denis Macquin, Tabella cibaria, Notes, page 14: