† ˈgluttery Obs.
Forms: 3 glot(e)ri, glotory, glutry, -rie, 3–4 glotery, -ori, 4 glot(te)ry, gluttery, -eri(e, -erye, glutiry, -urry, 4–5 glotorye, 5 glutterye, glutery, gluttre.
[a. OF. glotirie, glouterie, f. glot glutton: see glut n.1 and -ery.]
Gluttony.
The word is chiefly northern, occurring frequently in the Cursor Mundi and in Hampole.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 10114 Þe fleche has redili him bi, Foli liking, and gloteri. a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxviii. 19 Þe wickid delites of glutiry and lichery. 1382 Wyclif Deut. xxi. 20 This oure sone..to glotryes [1388 glotonyes] takith hede, and to leccherye, and to feestis. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xv. 69 Þai..occupiez all þe day..in drinkyng and in glotry. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7172 Þai turned to glutery and confusioun. c 1470 Henry Wallace vii. 349 Throuch full gluttre in swarff swappyt lik swyn. |