glutton

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Six is a perfect number, and seven is a prime number, but only a glutton for punishment would put them together in front of a bunch of 13-year-olds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Like a moth to a flame, there is just something about all that color and texture; I am a glutton for disappointment where fruitcake is concerned.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2023

“I am a glutton for print. I love books in every way. I love them more than most human beings.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022

To care too much about what you ate made you a glutton, an epithet applied to another poet of the fourth century B.C.,

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Rus the dog hopped from bed to bed, because he was a glutton for love.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby