Gluttony

See also Greed.

Belch, Sir Toby

gluttonous and lascivious fop. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night]

Biggers, Jack

one of the best known “feeders” of eighteenth-century England. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 377]

Ciacco

Florentine damned to the third circle of Hell for gluttony. [Ital. Lit.: Dante Inferno]

crab

loves to devour oysters. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 210–211]

Dagwood

relieves tensions by making and eating gargantuan sandwiches. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118]

Fat Freddy

character who loves food more than anything else. [Comics: “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” in Horn, 239–240]

Gargantua

enormous eater who ate salad lettuces as big as walnut trees. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Handbook, 406]

Gastrolaters

people worshiped food in the form of Manduce. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel]

hedgehog

attribute of gourmandism personified. [Animal Symbolism: Hall, 146]

Jones, Nicely Nicely

Damon Runyon’s Broadway glutton. [Am. Lit. and Drama: Guys and Dolls]

Jughead

character renowned for his insatiable hankering for hamburgers. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]

Laphystius

epithet of Zeus, meaning “gluttonous.” [Gk. Myth. Zimmerman, 292–293]

Lucullus

Roman epicure chiefly remembered for his enormous consumption of food. [Rom. Hist.: Payton, 406]

lupin

traditional symbol of voracity. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]

Manduce

idol worshiped by the Gastrolaters. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel]

Pantagruel

son of Gargantua noted for his continual thirst. [Fr. Lit.: Jobes, II, 1234]

Snorkel, Sergeant

character devoted to God, country, and belly. [Comics: “Beetle Bailey” in Horn, 106 ]

Sobakevitch

huge, bearlike landowner astonishes banquet guests by devouring an entire sturgeon. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol Dead Souls]

Stivic, Michael “Meathead”

Archie’s son-in-law; has insatiable appetite. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47]

Willey, Walter

servant who achieved fame through his public gluttony. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378]

Wimpy, J. Wellington

Popeye’s companion, a corpulent dandy with a tremendous capacity for hamburgers. [Comics: “Thimble Theater” in Horn, 657–658]

Winnie-the-Pooh

lovable, bumbling devourer of honey. [Children’s Lit.: Winnie-the-Pooh]

Wood, Nicholas

his gastronomic abilities inspired poems and songs; at one historic sitting, he consumed all the edible meat of a sheep. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378]

Wood, Willy

“ate up cream cheese, roast beef, piecrust”; incessant eater. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 158]

Yogi Bear

character with insatiable appetite; always stealing picnic baskets from visitors to Jellystone Park. [Am. Comics: Misc.; TV: Terrace, II, 448–449]

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References in periodicals archive

Of course, gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins and one which today seems more prevalent.

THOUGHT for the DAY

I am indeed an angry person, gluttony comes naturally as I love eating and as far as sloth goes - I almost didn't do the programme."

Burning in hell-for devil of a laugh

With millions of our fellow citizens joining the ranks of the morbidly obese, how do we turn the tide of gluttony and lethargy?

Arnocorps

Besides, it was just normal participation in the holiday spirit--socially accepted gluttony, all committed in the name of the Incarnation.

Is it a sin to be fat? Protect us, Lord, from the chips and the chocolate! Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, it's true. So when does the food that gives us sustenance and pleasure become a spiritual obstacle?

Which caused agnosticism/atheism blog writer Austin Cline to ask not long ago: "If gluttony is a deadly sin, why are higher rates of obesity associated with greater religious dedication?"

Moral weight of obesity: Christian teachings on reverence for the body, on the sin of gluttony speak to moderation and a healthy lifestyle

It reminds us why gluttony got on the list of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Theme for Today

I was to encounter that same faith in improvisation when Balanchine recreated The Seven Deadly Sins for me in 1958; he asked me to make up some of my own calorie-losing calisthenics for the Gluttony section.

Carmelita Maracci

The seven capital sins are 1) Pride, 2) Covetousness (avarice), 3) Lust, 4) Anger, 5) Gluttony, 6) Envy, and 7) Sloth.

Things Catholics count

Which one is missing from the seven deadly sins, anger, avarice, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth?

TEABREAK TEASERS

The problem probably goes back to the French Revolution, whose bourgeois leaders sought to stamp out popular festivities--with all their drunkenness, gluttony, and supposedly lewd behavior--and replace them with carefully orchestrated ceremonies in honor of "Reason" or "the Supreme Being." It was in that revolution, with men like Robespierre, that the Leninist ideal of the unsmiling "professional revolutionary" was born--a type every bit as hostile to spontaneity and self-indulgence as the grimmest of the old Calvinist merchant class.

Was It Good for You?

Indeed, hard work and common sense were democratic virtues of the working class, in contrast to the gluttony and glitz that had failed the aristocracy in the roaring twenties.

In search of the real three little pigs

The most famous of the French morality plays is Nicolas de la Chesnaye's Condemnation des banquets (1507), which argues for moderation by showing the bad end that awaits a company of unrepentant revelers, including Gluttony and Watering Mouth.

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