gormand
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- gormandism noun
Example Sentences
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An unfortunate gormand seized it, and was soon placed with the other finny captives.
From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Spalding, Henry S.
Our gormand, gloating round, Cried, 'Sheep, I wonder much Who could have made you such.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
He was not a gormand, but he had continued to live well.
From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley
Galaxy, galleon, garrulity, gesticulate, gormand, granivorous, grandiloquent, gravamen, gratuitous, gregarious, habitue, hallucination, harbinger, hardihood, heckle, hectic, hedonist, hegemony, heinous, herbivorous, heretic, hermaphrodite, heterodox, heterogeneous, hibernate. histrionic, hoidenism, homiletics, homogeneous, hydraulic, hypothesis.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
The little observer was willing to give up all her breakfast to the little winged gormand for the sake of the satisfaction she received from seeing how he managed to eat.
From Piccolissima by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
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