glut

Pronunciation: /ɡlʌt/

The English word “glut” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

An excess, too much.
That which is swallowed.
Something that fills up an opening.
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
A block used for a fulcrum.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Five goals scored by one player in a game.

verb

To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).

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