This week's theme: insults.

gundygut (GUHN-di-guht) noun

   A voracious eater; a greedy person.

[From gundy, of unexplained origin + gut (belly).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "But I am no gundygut. My gastronomical satiety has arrived at a state of
   surfeit."
   Peggy Christian; The Bookstore Mouse; Harcourt; 2002.

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