gormandize

[ verb gawr-muhn-dahyz; noun gawr-muhn-deez ]

verb (used with or without object)

, gor·mand·ized, gor·mand·iz·ing.

1. to eat greedily or ravenously.

noun

1. gourmandise ¹.

gormandize

verb

1. to eat (food) greedily and voraciously

noun

1. a less common variant of gourmandise

Derived Forms

• ˈgormandˌizer, noun

Other Words From

• gormand·izer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gormandize¹

1540–50; < French gourmandise (noun), equivalent to Middle French gourmand gourmand + -ise noun suffix later taken as v. suffix -ize

Example Sentences

You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.

From Project Gutenberg

The signoras, and signorinas, fell upon them and gormandized; but the signors eyed them with reasonable suspicion.

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"We are all described as a filthy, gormandizing race," raged an article in the Courier and Enquirer, which was edited by James Watson Webb.

From BBC

On examination, he found that he had spent enough for provisions on which to gormandize to have lasted eight months, and yet he had been on the route but two and a half months.

From Project Gutenberg

They did not gormandize, for gluttony leads to a fit of indigestion, and that leads to bad temper.

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