gluttonism

noun

gluttonism

noun

Etymology From glutton + -ism.

1

The state of being a glutton.

  • Pliny calls the second of these brothers, nepotum omnium altissimus gurges; "the deepest gulph of the time," as to high feeding and helluation, or professional gluttonism.1820, Ange Denis Macquin, Tabella cibaria, Notes, page 14:

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