gannet

Etymology
From, , from , from , , from , , ultimately related to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, all “gander, male goose”.

Noun

 * 1) Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family . They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.
 * 2)  A voracious eater; a glutton.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:glutton

Derived terms

 * northern gannet,

Translations

 * Asturian: ,
 * Catalan: mascarell
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: mascato
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: timmik
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:, ogastún
 * Italian:
 * Maori: karake, tākapu
 * Navajo: taahilnoodii
 * Norman: mauve à maq'thé, mèrgaud
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sule
 * Old English: ganot
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: alcatraz
 * Romanian: gâscă de mare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sùlaire, guga
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: hugan, gwylanwydd

Verb

 * 1)  To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.
 * 2) * Gaynor Kay, Pebble in the Grass (page 115)
 * She was no longer in the company of her older sister and mother who had often scolded her for ganneting down her food.