gluttonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gluttonly
form: most gluttonly
Etymology: From glutton + -ly. The adverb is attested in Middle English as glotonliche, glotonly, glotounliche (“voraciously, greedily”).
Senses: examples: text: Pilgrims, now, within that larder, / Through the nibbled pastry see / Creeping things, in foul disorder, / Feasting gluttonly.
ref: 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:
text: Fill not your mouths gluttonly with large pieces, one upon the other.
ref: 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:
text: Then they drink all around, and sometimes they do drink right shamefully and gluttonly.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.
ref: 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:
text: The pickings are good. The City is strewn with stillborn. The hawk feeds gluttonly.
ref: 1972, Peter Neill, chapter 11, in Mock Turtle Soup, New York, N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Numerous contestants gathered to gluttonly gorge their alimentary canal with as many burgers as possible.
ref: 1973, “Burger Bust Gathers Campus Gluttons”, in DeSoto, Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University, Activities section, page 58:
text: Then a fourth camel entered the prairie and went on gluttonly eating its grass.
ref: 1979, Mohamad Jawad Chirri, “The Electoral Convention”, in The Brother of the Prophet Mohammad (The Imam Ali): A Reconstruction of Islamic History and an Extensive Research of the Shi-ite Islamic School of Thought, volume I, Detroit, Mich.: […] The Islamic Center of Detroit […], →OCLC, page 218:
text: The Bullfrog Sat On the Lily Pad, So Glad That it was a United States Frog - Fat, There on the Lily Pad feeding so fast and gluttonly on all the ponds^([sic]) Resources...
ref: 1981 August 1, Wayne Williams, “U.S. Amphibian Force”, in Earth First!, volume 1, number 7, Breckenridge, Colo., page 3, column 1:
text: In listening to Mr. Dingell, it sounds like the Medicare+Choice plan is some sort of carnivore that wanders into a region and gets fat on profits and, after fattening up, gluttonly wanders off for some strange reason, as if it doesn’t want to eat anymore.
ref: 2001 February 15, Jim Greenwood, quotee, Medicare Reform: Providing Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors; Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, […] (Serial No. 107-1), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 77:
synonyms: gluttonishly
gluttonously
glosses: In the manner of a glutton.