How do you pronounce gluttonous?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/.

Where does gluttonous come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.22 in modern English

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"Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners."
"Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, / And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws."
"["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid."
"Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers!"
"Look your last on your dearest ones, / Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons: / Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War."
"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."

From Middle English glotenose, glotenouse, glotonos, glotonous, glotounius, glotynous, from Middle French glotonos; equivalent to glutton + -ous.

more gluttonous (comparative) most gluttonous (superlative)

gluttonousness overgluttonous ungluttonous

glutton gluttonously gluttony