Definition of gluttonnext
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 Not to mention the obese little gluttons. Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 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 The bad guys are rich gluttons, the good guys are the struggling poor. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 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
  • Nighttime in the Okefenokee is filled with a wild cacophony — the choruses of pig frogs, hooting owls, crickets and sometimes the deep, nerve-jerking bellowing of bull alligators.
    Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 25 July 2026
  • Hoss and Howie are two oxen who live at the farm, and a pig cam lets the public keep tabs on new litters of piglets even when the fair isn’t running.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • The students and club members raise cows, goats, lambs, hogs, turkeys and more, spending hours feeding and training them daily and preparing them for showing.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 25 July 2026
  • From armrest hogs to aisle rushers, a new survey reveals the in-flight behaviors that frustrate American travelers most.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 21 July 2026

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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 29 Jul. 2026.

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