Citations:gannet

Bird

 * 1908, J. Bell Pettigrew, Design in Nature, vol 3, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 1280
 * The gannet has, consequently, less than half of the wing area of the heron.

Glutton

 * 2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird: A Novel, page 259
 * He was covered in food from head to toe, not just the stewed apples but a variety of suspect stains which Bob helpfully mapped - 'Marmite, Ambrosia Creamed Rice, Ready Brek - this thing's a gannet.'
 * 2002, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lords of the White Castle, page 315
 * 'I never realised that you had the appetite of a gannet.'
 * 2004, Steve Morris, Pod and the Sexy Dream Club, page 165
 * We called him the gannet, because he just couldn't resist food.
 * 2005, Philip McCutchan, Halfhyde for the Queen, page 61
 * "If we are hungry! The quality looked poor certainly, but I shall fall to like a gannet."
 * Stanley said, "Eat it all, my dear fellow, I have no appetite, only thirst."
 * 2005, Kevin Muir, Run for Freedom: Kick Up the Sectarian Dirt, page 281
 * Fixing Toby his meal and a fresh drink, Tommy knew that if the 'gannet' dog turned his nose up at the food then there was indisputably something seriously wrong.