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glutony

glutony is the misspelling of gluttony.

Meaning of gluttony

Noun

gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)

  1. The vice of eating to excess.
    • 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?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

Questions about glutony

What is glutony the misspelling of?
Glutony is the misspelling of gluttony.

Words near glutony in the dictionary

  1. glutinous rices
  2. glutinously
  3. glutinousness
  4. glutition
  5. glutitions
  6. glutony
  7. glutose
  8. glutoses
  9. gluts
  10. glutted
  11. glutter

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