gluttonous

Etymology

From glutton + -ous.

adj

  1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
  2. Greedy.
    Look your last on your dearest ones, Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons: Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War. 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call
    One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth

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