as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake

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Recent Examples of glutton Long-range gluttons are colliding with 3-point stranglers. Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025 Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far. Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025 The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards. Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for glutton
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Noun
  • Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone’s favorite pig was born for the spotlight.
    Ella Cerón, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While not native to Florida, wild hogs, also called feral hogs, feral swine, feral pigs, wild boar, wild pigs or piney woods rooter, live in all 67 Florida counties, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC).
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Penny has reported on everything from national civil rights issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas and now Arkansas.
    Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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