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gluttoning

gluttoning is the present participle and gerund of glutton.

Meaning of glutton

Verb

glutton (third-person singular simple present gluttons, present participle gluttoning, simple past and past participle gluttoned)

  1. (archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
    • Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.a. 1657, Richard Lovelace, On Sanazar's Hundred Duckets by hte Clarissimi of Venice
  2. (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
    • Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles

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Questions about gluttoning

What is gluttoning the present participle and gerund of?
Gluttoning is the present participle and gerund of glutton.

Words near gluttoning in the dictionary

  1. gluttoned
  2. gluttoness
  3. gluttonesses
  4. gluttonie
  5. gluttonies
  6. gluttoning
  7. gluttonise
  8. gluttonised
  9. gluttonises
  10. gluttonish
  11. gluttonishly

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