gorger

¹ American  

[gawr-jer] / ˈgɔr dʒər /

noun

1. a person or animal that eats greedily and excessively, or that feeds voraciously on a particular thing.

   My brothers and sisters were all instant-gratification gorgers, and consumed their Halloween candy as quickly as they could.

   The ladybug is a voracious gorger of aphids.

2. a person greedy for power, money, etc..

   The judgment effectively provides blanket immunity for the many political gorgers who made off with almost $9 billion in "unaccounted-for" taxpayer money.

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gorger ² American  

[gawr-jer] / ˈgɔr dʒər /

noun

1. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. Often Gorger a Romani term for a person who is not Romani.

   The fights start when she decides to break with tradition and marry outside the Roma community; her fiancé is a gorger.

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adjective

1. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. Often Gorger a Romani term meaning “non-Romani”.

   It is sad that relationships between Roma and Gorger communities are so strained where once they would have been quite relaxed.

Etymology

Origin of gorger¹

gorge ¹ ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Origin of gorger²

First recorded in 1840–45; phonetic spelling of American Romani gorger, from British Romani gawja, from Romani gadjo “non-Romani man”

Example Sentences

Balzac is scolded for being “an ecstatic, compulsive gorger and borderline glutton” who devoured “congealed cold cuts and other toxic snacks.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

I have seen this word printed as gorger in English slang. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

A gorger or gorgio—the two are often confounded—is the common Gipsy word for one who is not Gipsy, and very often means with them a rye or gentleman, and indeed any man whatever. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

The gorger or gourmand may not be particular about the kind of food that is given him, but he desires a large quantity, more than is good for him.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

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