A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1475-1512
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Gluttery, Gluttré, n. [ME. (chiefly northern) glutery, -iry, glotry, gloteri (a 1300), OF. glotirie.] Gluttony. —c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 349.
Throuch full gluttre in swarff swappyt lik swyn c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 73/25.
I haue nocht had … abstenance aganis gluttery c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 91 (M).
The full monstour gluttery With wame insaciable & gredy
