Gluten vs. Glutton — What's the Difference?

Gluten is a group of seed storage proteins found in certain cereal grains. Although, strictly speaking, "gluten" pertains only to wheat proteins, in the medical literature it refers to the combination of prolamin and glutelin proteins naturally occurring in all grains that have been demonstrated capable of triggering celiac disease.

An excessively greedy eater.

The mixture of proteins, including gliadins and glutelins, found in wheat grains, which are not soluble in water and which give wheat dough its elastic texture.

Old-fashioned term for wolverine

Any of the prolamins found in cereal grains, especially the prolamins in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats, that cause digestive disorders such as celiac disease.

A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.

(obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").

A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something

(rare) Any gluey, sticky substance.

See wolverine.

The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

(geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc.

One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

(figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess

A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough

The wolverine, Gulo gulo.

(archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.

(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.

One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

Fig.: One who gluts himself.

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.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

To glut; to eat voraciously.

A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

Wolverine of northern Eurasia