Plural of glutton; people who eat excessively or are excessively greedy.
From Old French 'gloton,' from Latin 'glutto,' possibly from 'gluttire' (to swallow). The plural is formed with the regular '-s' ending in English.
Gluttons appear as characters in literature more than almost any other vice-specific sinner—Chaucer's Pardoner, Rabelais's Gargantua—because overeating is visible, grotesque, and easier to write about than internal moral struggles.
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