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 In fact, a recent article comparing the energy consumption spanning 20 years by the top 500 supercomputers in the world found that a publicly available quantum computer with the same compute power as the top-energy glutton on the list, consumed less than 0.05% of the electricity. Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Solar fields to help power these energy gluttons are expected to gobble up 10 million acres of rural land over the next 10 years. Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 Professional gluttons gradually increase their intake of food over long periods of time. Matt Fuchs, TIME, 3 July 2024 Black is no king of one-liners or master impersonator or glutton for physical punishment. Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for glutton

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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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