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glut

/ɡlʌt/ Canada, US, UK
[ɡlʊt] Northern England
/ɡlɐt/ Australia, New Zealand
/ɡləʈ/ India

Rhymes with -ʌt

Where it comes from

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”).

noun gluts

An excess, too much. a glut of the market
Similar: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus · Opposite: lack, shortage
That which is swallowed. And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
Something that fills up an opening.
Similar: clog
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
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.
UK Five goals scored by one player in a game. Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

verb gluts · glutting · glutted

transitive To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate. to glut one's appetite
transitive To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
intransitive To eat gluttonously or to satiety. And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]

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noun excess

Português	excesso
Deutsch	Schwemme, Überfluss, Überschuss
Italiano	eccesso, pletora, scorpacciata, sazietà
Русский	изли́шество izlíšestvo

noun something that fills up an opening; a clog

Русский	засор zasor

verb to fill to capacity — see also sate

Español	saciar
日本語	飽食する houshokusuru
Português	saciar
Deutsch	auffüllen, sättigen, befriedigen, stillen

verb to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand

Français	inonder
Deutsch	überschwemmen

verb to eat gluttonously

Español	glotonear
Português	empanturrar-se
Français	gargantuer

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@misc{glut_2026,
  title = {glut},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glut},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}