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
  • Born on a pig farm in small-town Minnesota, Lehmann is an alum of Harvard University and UCB who frequently develops for TV, having most recently sold half-hour sitcoms to CBS, ABC, and Freeform.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Her radical friend Anja, however, goes too far, poisoning pig feed with a strange black liquid that gradually turns the pigs into bloodthirsty zombies.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The United Soybean Board is investing in research into the benefits of using soybeans to feed dairy cows and hogs.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • To work them to death no more a sin than to butcher a hog.
    Greg Grandin September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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