glutton

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glutton/ˈɡlʌtn/

▶noun

• 1 an excessively greedy eater.

  ■ a person who is very fond of something: he's a glutton for poetry.

• 2 old-fashioned term for wolverine.

– phrases
a glutton for punishment a person who is always eager to undertake difficult tasks.

– derivatives
gluttonize (or gluttonise) verb,
gluttonous adjective,
gluttonously adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. gluton, from L. glutto(n-), rel. to gluttire ‘to swallow’, gluttus ‘greedy’, and gula ‘throat’.