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gluttonize en · VERB

Etymology

From glutton + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
    • Mayflies are among Mother Nature's most graceful and beautiful creations, and I think I'd believe that even if trout didn't gluttonize on them when they ride on a stream's currents to dry their wings. 2013, William G. Tapply, Close to the Bone:
    • the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gluttonizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gluttonise alternative lexicographic
gluttonized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gluttonized Tense=Past lexicographic
gluttonizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (3)

bg тъпча се (to eat an excessive amount) · fi mässäillä (to eat an excessive amount) · bg ям лакомо (to eat an excessive amount)