gluttonly

comparative more gluttonly · superlative most gluttonly

1. Resembling or characteristic of a glutton.

   Pavel Arkadievitch ate a great deal in an unpleasant and gluttonly way.

   1920, A[leksandr] Kuprin, translated by Douglas Ashby, “Measles”, in Sasha (The Lotus Library), London: Stanley Paul & Co. […], →OCLC, section II, page 213

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   All five then began a system of begging and gluttonly eating which need not be described.

   1892, J[esse] Walter Fewkes, “Hemenway Southwestern Archæological Expedition: I. A Few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos”, in J. Walter Fewkes, editor, A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 45

   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.

   1897, J[oshua] R. Hayes, “The Stomach and other Digestive Organs”, in How to Live Longer and Why We Do Not Live Longer, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 55

   In other words, the deaths resulting from a lazy, gluttonly peace are many times multiplied over the deaths of war.

   1917 July 7–14, John Dill Robertson, “Standards of Individual Health Among Children”, in National Education Association of the United States: Addresses and Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting Held at Portland, Oregon, volume LV, Washington, D.C.: […] [T]he Association […], page 716

   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.

   1918, William Beebe, “The Convict Trail”, in Jungle Peace, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 202–203

   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.

   1964, Flann O’Brien [pseudonym; Brian O’Nolan], chapter 4, in The Dalkey Archive, London: Picador, published 1976, →ISBN, page 35

   Synonyms: gluttonish, gluttonous

comparative more gluttonly · superlative most gluttonly

1. In the manner of a glutton.

   Fill not your mouths gluttonly with large pieces, one upon the other.

   1852, Moses Maimonides, translated by M[arcus] H[yman] Bresslau, “The Last Will of Rabbi Moses Maimonides, Addressed to His Son Rabbi Abraham”, in Hirsch Edelman, compiler, The Path of Good Men: A Collection of Parental Instructions to Children, by Authors Distinguished in Israel for Wisdom and Learning, […], London: […] A P. Shaw and Co., […], pages 31–32

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   Pilgrims, now, within that larder, / Through the nibbled pastry see / Creeping things, in foul disorder, / Feasting gluttonly.

   1846 November 21, E. A. Poh [pseudonym; Mathew Franklin Whittier], “The Haunted Pasty”, in Yankee Doodle, volume I, number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] William H. Graham’s, […], page 76, column 2

   Then they drink all around, and sometimes they do drink right shamefully and gluttonly.

   1900, William of Rubruck, translated by William Woodville Rockhill, “The Journey to the Eastern Parts of the World, of Friar William of Rubruck, of the Order of Minor Friars, in the Year of Grace mccliii”, in The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55, […], London: […] The Hakluyt Society, page 63

   Such a scourge [i.e., pneumonia] that robs us gluttonly of our young and old, weak and strong, rich and poor needs our best thought and study.

   1910 April, H. Edwin Lewis, “Introduction. Some Remarks on the History and Occurrence of Pneumonia, with Brief Statistical Data.”, in American Medicine, volume XVI, complete series / V, new series, number 4, Burlington, Vt.; New York, N.Y.: American Medical Publishing Company, Original Articles section, page 167, column 2

   Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.

   1955 July, Norman E. Flitters, “Bugs in His Lenses!”, in Arthur E. Gavin, editor, American Cinematographer: The Magazine of Motion Picture Photography, volume 36, number 7, Hollywood, Calif.: [T]he A. S. C. Agency, Inc., page 420

   The pickings are good. The City is strewn with stillborn. The hawk feeds gluttonly.

   1972, Peter Neill, chapter 11, in Mock Turtle Soup, New York, N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 102

   Synonyms: gluttonishly, gluttonously