gourmandize
Americanverb (used without object)
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Etymology
Origin of gourmandize
Explanation
If you love to eat delicious food, and plenty of it, then you tend to gourmandize. A good place for people who gourmandize is an all-you-can-eat buffet. There are other words with a similar meaning, including binge and overeat. The word gourmandize is a fancier way to essentially say the same thing, although it sometimes implies higher-quality food, like when people gourmandize at expensive restaurants, ordering course after course. No matter what you eat, though, when you gourmandize, you eat too much of it. The word comes from gourmand, "glutton."
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If gourmandize be the favorite failing in these parts, there is surely some excuse for the sinners.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
Try It, Mr. Conway Sirs: I have just returned from nine months in Europe, mostly in the three countries Conway gourmandized in at New York nightclub prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tensions and insecurities may have something to do with Pavarotti's gourmandizing too, quite beyond his sensual gusto and need to replenish himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alfred's son Fritz was a pudgy, gourmandizing sybarite, who fattened Kruppdom by gobbling up coal and iron mines and the shipyards at Kiel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former assist us by their voracious appetites, that can only be satisfied with gourmandizing upon other insects, particularly the juicy bodies of their larvæ.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
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