gluttonly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a glutton.
Example Sentences
- "All five then began a system of begging and gluttonly eating which need not be described."
- "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."
- "In other words, the deaths resulting from a lazy, gluttonly peace are many times multiplied over the deaths of war."
- "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."
- "Pavel Arkadievitch ate a great deal in an unpleasant and gluttonly way."
- "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."
Etymology
From glutton + -ly. The adverb is attested in Middle English as glotonliche, glotonly, glotounliche (“voraciously, greedily”).
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more gluttonly (comparative)
most gluttonly (superlative)