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 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 Rough Road Bikes: A trio of steeds for the path less taken. Road Runners: Six pairs of pavement gluttons. Christine Byrne, Outside Online, 14 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for glutton
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Noun
  • Fish with jig and pigs or plastic worms on a drop=shot rig or shaky head jig.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • They're derived from animal sources, such as fish, cattle, pigs or chicken.
    Maria Godoy, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The land was also covered by swamps and ponds, where animals lived, including deer, ducks and hogs.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Similarly, frog, hog, pig and stag.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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