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Gluttony See also Greed. Belch, Sir Toby gluttonous and lascivious fop. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night] one of the best known “feeders” of eighteenth-century England. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 377] Florentine damned to the third circle of Hell for gluttony. [Ital. Lit.: Dante Inferno] loves to devour oysters. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 210–211]
relieves tensions by making and eating gargantuan sandwiches. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118] character who loves food more than anything else. [Comics: “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” in Horn, 239–240] enormous eater who ate salad lettuces as big as walnut trees. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Handbook, 406] people worshiped food in the form of Manduce. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] attribute of gourmandism personified. [Animal Symbolism: Hall, 146] Damon Runyon’s Broadway glutton. [Am. Lit. and Drama: Guys and Dolls] character renowned for his insatiable hankering for hamburgers. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] epithet of Zeus, meaning “gluttonous.” [Gk. Myth. Zimmerman, 292–293] Roman epicure chiefly remembered for his enormous consumption of food. [Rom. Hist.: Payton, 406] traditional symbol of voracity. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175] idol worshiped by the Gastrolaters. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] son of Gargantua noted for his continual thirst. [Fr. Lit.: Jobes, II, 1234] character devoted to God, country, and belly. [Comics: “Beetle Bailey” in Horn, 106 ] huge, bearlike landowner astonishes banquet guests by devouring an entire sturgeon. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol Dead Souls] Archie’s son-in-law; has insatiable appetite. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47] servant who achieved fame through his public gluttony. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378] Popeye’s companion, a corpulent dandy with a tremendous capacity for hamburgers. [Comics: “Thimble Theater” in Horn, 657–658] lovable, bumbling devourer of honey. [Children’s Lit.: Winnie-the-Pooh] his gastronomic abilities inspired poems and songs; at one historic sitting, he consumed all the edible meat of a sheep. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378]
“ate up cream cheese, roast beef, piecrust”; incessant eater. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 158] character with insatiable appetite; always stealing picnic baskets from visitors to Jellystone Park. [Am. Comics: Misc.; TV: Terrace, II, 448–449] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Spoon sour cream into a resealable plastic food bag. Bill couldn't find the tent poles, I had forgotten to buy flashlight batteries, and Jacob, our toddler, had ripped into our food bag like a hungry baby raccoon. One vote from the Mid Town North Hollywood Neighborhood Council was all that separated Alexander Rodriguez and the El Cubano Food Bag Market from what he said would have been financial peril. |
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