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GLUTTONOUS
Definition of GLUTTONOUS
adjective
Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English glotenose, glotenouse, glotonos, glotonous, glotounius, glotynous, from Middle French glotonos; equivalent to glutton + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (870)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLUTTONOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLUTTONOUS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GLNOOSTTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U, T and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GLUTTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GLUTTONOUS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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