gormandize
verb (used with or without object)
to eat greedily or ravenously.
gormandizer
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a word derived from
gormandize.
Example Sentences
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A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god."
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
