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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] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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