▪ I. glutting, vbl. n.1
(ˈglʌtɪŋ)
[f. glut v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb glut1; feeding to repletion, cramming, or cloying. Also concr., an amount (of food) that gluts.
| c 1315 Shoreham 97 And that thou ne werche nauȝt, Ac gest to þyne gloutynge..Thou halst..wel wors thane masse-day Thane manne myd hys workynge. 1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) G iv b, By vsing of..glutting of meates which weakeneth the body. 1598 Florio, Corpacciata, a panchfull, a glutting. 1626 Bacon Sylva §300 Some Food we may vse long and much, without Glutting. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. xiv. 26 Nothing but gluttings of the sence. 1653 Rouse Myst. Marr. 303 So temperate a moderation between glutting and starving, that the soul be neither too fat nor too lean. |
▪ II. glutting, vbl. n.2 rare.
(ˈglʌtɪŋ)
[f. glut v.2 + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb glut2; greedy swallowing, gulping. Also glutting down. b. A sound as of swallowing.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. 127 He swimmes, and sinkes, and in that glutting downe, The angry Fates, did kind Leander drowne. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xi. §2 (1734) 229 The Breathing difficult, with Glutting, Gulping, or Choaking. |
▪ III. ˈglutting, ppl. a.1
[f. glut v.1 + -ing2.]
That gluts, sates, or cloys.
| 1574 T. Newton Dir. Health Mag. 52 A great gluttinge draught drowneth the meate. 1634 Rainbow Labour (1635) 15 Glutting morsels spread..upon..purples. 1681 J. Flavel Meth. Grace xii. 252 The loveliness of every creature is of a cloying and glutting nature. |
Hence ˈgluttingly adv., so as to glut.
| 1611 Florio, A satietà, with saciety, hold-belly-hold, gluttingly. |
▪ IV. ˈglutting, ppl. a.2
[f. glut v.2 + -ing2.]
That gluts or swallows greedily.
| 1555 Harpsfield Divorce (1878) 287 This insatiable, glutting Charibdis and Sylla. |