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gormandize
[ verb gawr-muhn-dahyz; noun gawr-muhn-deez ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to eat greedily or ravenously.
noun
gormandize
verb
- to eat (food) greedily and voraciously
noun
- See gourmandisea less common variant of gourmandise
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Derived Forms
- ˈgormandˌizer, noun
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Other Words From
- gormand·izer noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gormandize1
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Example Sentences
Go to, thou gorged dullard, and tell thy master to gormandize without me.
She satirizes human foibles and weaknesses, showing ghosts that gossip and gormandize, simper and swear as they did in life.
Indeed, very frequently, when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
Let your epicures gormandize their fowl, fish, and flesh, with draughts of intoxicating liquors.
Let the poor wretch gormandize between the rack and the gallows.
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