Glutton vs. Gourmand — What's the Difference?

An excessively greedy eater.

A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming good food and drink. Gourmand originally referred to a person who was "a glutton for food and drink", a person who eats and drinks excessively; this usage is now rare.

Old-fashioned term for wolverine

A person who enjoys eating and often eats too much.

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

A lover of good food.

A person with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something

A person who often eats too much.

See wolverine.

A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

A person who appreciates good food.

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

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.

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

A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

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