gluttony

Etymology

Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio.

noun

  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? 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest

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