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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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
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
The Frenchman is ravenous for the theatrical situation,—a perfect gormandizer of the dramatic event.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
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
