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glutton

/gluht-n/US // ˈglʌt n //UK // (ˈɡlʌtən) //

贪吃鬼,贪食者,饕餮,馋嘴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
    • : a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something: a glutton for work; a glutton for punishment.

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Examples

  • The last time I made it, this glutton for punishment asked his significant other to grade it.

  • The Daily Pic: The Italian was such a glutton for order, he could have been the first conceptualist.

  • For while he can be as diverting as the greatest glutton for mirth desires, he has all the machinery of dejection too.

  • I see the tiny drops spurt out, lapped up by the glutton as soon as they appear.

  • At Glutton Mill the character of the scenery changes with the geological nature of the country.

  • Most high and mighty Czar of all flesh, ceaseless reducer of empires, unfathomable glutton in the whole realms of nature.

  • I was like a glutton before a table piled high with delicacies and with plenty of time to spare.