Epicure vs. Glutton — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Epicure and Glutton
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Epicure
A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine.
Glutton
An excessively greedy eater.
Epicure
A person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living.
Glutton
Old-fashioned term for wolverine
Epicure
A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
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Glutton
A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.
Epicure
A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.
Glutton
A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something
A glutton for punishment.
Epicure
One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
Glutton
See wolverine.
Epicure
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Glutton
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
Glutton
One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
Glutton
(figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
Glutton
The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
Glutton
(archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
Glutton
(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
Glutton
One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Glutton
Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
Glutton
A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Glutton
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
Glutton
To glut; to eat voraciously.
Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.
Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
Glutton
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Glutton
Wolverine of northern Eurasia
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