Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To gulp down; swallow greedily.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To swallow or gulp down.
- To fill to repletion; glut.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To swallow or gulp down.
- v. obsolete To glut.
WordNet 3.0
- v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Etymologies
- Partly from Old French englotir, partly from en- + glut. (Wiktionary)
- Anglo-Norman englutir, from Late Latin inglūtīre : Latin in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + Latin gluttīre, to swallow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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