as in pigs
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 gluttons
All of these people are gluttons at the feast.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
Not to mention the obese little gluttons.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
Not to mention the obese little gluttons.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gluttons
Noun
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In August 2024, about 1,100 pigs were killed in Versailles, a village about 50 miles northwest of Dayton, Ohio, according to data from the nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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Free-living non-native pigs east of the Wallace Line exhibit complex genomes that suggest waves of prehistoric human translocations.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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State Highway 130 has a stretch with a speed limit of eighty-five miles an hour, the highest in the country; the night the road opened, three cars crashed into feral hogs.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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The new facility aims to increase slaughter numbers to 22,000 hogs a day while maintaining a comparable workforce of 3,200 employees.—
Angela George,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Gluttons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gluttons. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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