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

Go to, thou gorged dullard, and tell thy master to gormandize without me.

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She satirizes human foibles and weaknesses, showing ghosts that gossip and gormandize, simper and swear as they did in life.

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Indeed, very frequently, when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.

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Let your epicures gormandize their fowl, fish, and flesh, with draughts of intoxicating liquors.

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Let the poor wretch gormandize between the rack and the gallows.

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