Meaning

noun a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

noun musteline mammal of northern Eurasia

originFrom Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0