An excessive supply of something, much more than is needed or wanted.
From Old French glout (gullet, throat), from Latin gluttire (to swallow), originally meant swallowing greedily; evolved to mean an excessive amount of something.
The word 'glut' literally started as describing someone with a greedy gullet and evolved into describing when markets have too much of something—language traces how we think about excess from individual greed to economic abundance!
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