Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. an enthusiast; in boxing, one who is a ‘glutton for punishment’.

1811		Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Glutton. A term used by bruisers to signify a man who will bear a great deal of beating.
1819		P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 6: [H]is daring competitor (that inordinate glutton) Burke.
1822		‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 220: In short, ’twas remarked by Gas, Randall, and Sutton, / That they never before had beheld such a glutton.
1833		‘Polly Cox’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 49: But Coaly’s fist was near the size / Of a decent leg of mutton, / And when it caught the Dustman’s eyes, / He own’d he war’nt no glutton.
1842		Flash (N.Y.) 10 July 2/3: Both men are professed pugilists, and thorough gluttons.
1844		Era (London) 21 Jan. 11/3: Two rough-and-ready blades, natural gluttons.
1855		Fights for the Championship 38: This ceremony [...] gave sufficient time to enable a glutton like Cribb to recover himself.
1855		(con. 1810) Fights for the Championship 43: Molineaux gave such proofs of gluttony that four to one now made many trwemble.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 126: gluttony. Punishing a man severely, without special regard to the science of pugilism. One who can endure a great amount of punishment is called a glutton.
1895		Truth (Sydney) 5 May 7/2: At Foley’s [...] Hotel we have had some eight rounds that would glut the greatest glutton breathing.
1896		Regiment 11 July 228/2: Never did I see such a pounding match. Both were what the boxers call ‘gluttons’.

2. enthusiasm, ardour, greediness.

c.1830

‘Smith’s Frolic’ in Holloway & Black II (1979) 61: The sight of my glutton so pleased the dame.

3. (gay, also glut) a man obsessed with sex to the exclusion of other considerations.

1941		G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 19: glut (n.): A fellator with an appetite that cannot be satisfied. (Rare.).