gluttonize

American

[gluht-n-ahyz] / ˈglʌt nˌaɪz /

especially British, gluttonise

verb (used without object)

gluttonized, gluttonizing

to eat like a glutton.

verb (used with object)

gluttonized, gluttonizing

to feast gluttonously on.

Etymology

Origin of gluttonize

First recorded in 1650–60; glutton ¹ + -ize

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gluttonize gluttonized

Self- sacrilegious demigod that I was, was I going to gluttonize on the very offerings, laid before me in my own sacred fane?

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

"I didn't instruct you to gluttonize," he reminded me.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

And oftentimes in their dinnerless despair hugely gluttonized, and would fain have grown fat, by reflecting upon the magnificence of their genealogies.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

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