Forms: 5 surfetour, 6 surfeter, surffetter, 6–7 surfetter, 7– surfeiter. [f. SURFEIT v. + -ER1.] One who surfeits; a glutton, gormandizer; † formerly also in wider sense: One given to sensual excess, a profligate, libertine.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), III. ix. 55. Bollers of wyn and ale, dronkelewe surfetours.
1547–64. Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), 45. A lecher, a rioter, a surfetter, a brauler.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., II. i. 33. This amorous Surfetter.
1657. Rumsey, Org. Salutis, iv. (1659), 17. That … there remains part of the meat undigested … is too well known to moderate Surfeiters.
1756. W. Dodd, Fasting (ed. 2), 11. Religious duties, which how can the sleepy surfeiter ever perform?
1866. Pall Mall G., 2 Oct., 3/2. The royal surfeiter par eminence—was Henry I.
