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gluttonly en · ADJ
Etymology
From glutton + -ly. The adverb is attested in Middle English as glotonliche, glotonly, glotounliche (“voraciously, greedily”).
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of a glutton.
But the vanquished invariably gave up to his conqueror the last thing he had swallowed, the victor receiving it in a gluttonly rather than a gracious spirit, but allowing his captive to escape.
1918, William Beebe, “The Convict Trail”, in Jungle Peace, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 202–203:She limited herself to two courses and two removes, but served such a quantity of side dishes that the most gluttonly of her guests, her husband, had no cause to complain.
1976 December, Joan Smith, chapter 13, in An Affair of the Heart: […] (A Coventry Classic), New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Coventry, published February 1977, →ISBN, page 163:They make warm clothes out of the hide, perform gluttonly feats with the meat and then bring the oil home to the igloo where they light lamps and stoves.
1964, Flann O’Brien [pseudonym; Brian O’Nolan], chapter 4, in The Dalkey Archive, London: Picador, published 1976, →ISBN, page 35:A distinguished lady in Pennsylvania unfortunately mated with a dissipated and gluttonly husband was accustomed to give the butcher boy a dime for bringing home from market pork chops and sausage.
1897, J[oshua] R. Hayes, “The Stomach and other Digestive Organs”, in How to Live Longer and Why We Do Not Live Longer, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 55:All five then began a system of begging and gluttonly eating which need not be described.
1892, J[esse] Walter Fewkes, “Hemenway Southwestern Archæological Expedition: I. A Few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos”, in J. Walter Fewkes, editor, A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 45:Pavel Arkadievitch ate a great deal in an unpleasant and gluttonly way.
1920, A[leksandr] Kuprin, translated by Douglas Ashby, “Measles”, in Sasha (The Lotus Library), London: Stanley Paul & Co. […], →OCLC, section II, page 213:In other words, the deaths resulting from a lazy, gluttonly peace are many times multiplied over the deaths of war.
1917 July 7–14, John Dill Robertson, “Standards of Individual Health Among Children”, in National Education Association of the United States: Addresses and Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting Held at Portland, Oregon, volume LV, Washington, D.C.: […] [T]he Association […], page 716:Like his animal counterpart, the Pig often over-eats but unlike his gluttonly barnyard brother, the Chinese Pig is a cultivated, discriminating gourmet with a well-developed palate.
1993, Suzanne White, “The Pristine Pig”, in The New Chinese Astrology, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 465:
Forms
Synonyms
gluttonous · gluttonish
gluttonly en · ADV
Etymology
From glutton + -ly. The adverb is attested in Middle English as glotonliche, glotonly, glotounliche (“voraciously, greedily”).
Meanings
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In the manner of a glutton.
Pilgrims, now, within that larder, / Through the nibbled pastry see / Creeping things, in foul disorder, / Feasting gluttonly.
1846 November 21, E. A. Poh [pseudonym; Mathew Franklin Whittier], “The Haunted Pasty”, in Yankee Doodle, volume I, number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] William H. Graham’s, […], page 76, column 2:Such a scourge [i.e., pneumonia] that robs us gluttonly of our young and old, weak and strong, rich and poor needs our best thought and study.
1910 April, H. Edwin Lewis, “Introduction. Some Remarks on the History and Occurrence of Pneumonia, with Brief Statistical Data.”, in American Medicine, volume XVI, complete series / V, new series, number 4, Burlington, Vt.; New York, N.Y.: American Medical Publishing Company, Original Articles section, page 167, column 2:Then a fourth camel entered the prairie and went on gluttonly eating its grass.
1979, Mohamad Jawad Chirri, “The Electoral Convention”, in The Brother of the Prophet Mohammad (The Imam Ali): A Reconstruction of Islamic History and an Extensive Research of the Shi-ite Islamic School of Thought, volume I, Detroit, Mich.: […] The Islamic Center of Detroit […], →OCLC, page 218:The Bullfrog Sat On the Lily Pad, So Glad That it was a United States Frog - Fat, There on the Lily Pad feeding so fast and gluttonly on all the ponds^([sic]) Resources...
1981 August 1, Wayne Williams, “U.S. Amphibian Force”, in Earth First!, volume 1, number 7, Breckenridge, Colo., page 3, column 1:Fill not your mouths gluttonly with large pieces, one upon the other.
1852, Moses Maimonides, translated by M[arcus] H[yman] Bresslau, “The Last Will of Rabbi Moses Maimonides, Addressed to His Son Rabbi Abraham”, in Hirsch Edelman, compiler, The Path of Good Men: A Collection of Parental Instructions to Children, by Authors Distinguished in Israel for Wisdom and Learning, […], London: […] A P. Shaw and Co., […], pages 31–32:The pickings are good. The City is strewn with stillborn. The hawk feeds gluttonly.
1972, Peter Neill, chapter 11, in Mock Turtle Soup, New York, N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:In listening to Mr. Dingell, it sounds like the Medicare+Choice plan is some sort of carnivore that wanders into a region and gets fat on profits and, after fattening up, gluttonly wanders off for some strange reason, as if it doesn’t want to eat anymore.
2001 February 15, Jim Greenwood, quotee, Medicare Reform: Providing Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors; Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, […] (Serial No. 107-1), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 77:Then they drink all around, and sometimes they do drink right shamefully and gluttonly.
1900, William of Rubruck, translated by William Woodville Rockhill, “The Journey to the Eastern Parts of the World, of Friar William of Rubruck, of the Order of Minor Friars, in the Year of Grace mccliii”, in The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55, […], London: […] The Hakluyt Society, page 63:Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.
1955 July, Norman E. Flitters, “Bugs in His Lenses!”, in Arthur E. Gavin, editor, American Cinematographer: The Magazine of Motion Picture Photography, volume 36, number 7, Hollywood, Calif.: [T]he A. S. C. Agency, Inc., page 420:Numerous contestants gathered to gluttonly gorge their alimentary canal with as many burgers as possible.
1973, “Burger Bust Gathers Campus Gluttons”, in DeSoto, Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University, Activities section, page 58:
Forms
Synonyms
gluttonishly · gluttonously