To eat or swallow greedily or noisily, often while making gurgling sounds.
From Middle English 'gluten' (to swallow), related to Old Norse 'glotta' (to grin mockingly) and ultimately Germanic roots meaning to devour. The term combines the sense of greedy eating with the sounds produced during such consumption.
The word captures not just the act of overeating but the *sound* of it—most old English eating words are onomatopoetic, mimicking the actual noises of consumption, which is why gluttons have always been described with such unflattering auditory detail.
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