gourmandize

American  

[goor-muhn-dahyz] / ˈgʊər mənˌdaɪz /

verb (used without object)

gourmandized, gourmandizing

1. to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.

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Other Word Forms

• gourmandizer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of gourmandize

First recorded in 1540–50; gourmand + -ize

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."

Example Sentences

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gourmandize gourmandized gourmandizing

If gourmandize be the favorite failing in these parts, there is surely some excuse for the sinners.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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

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

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

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

Limburger research got going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread.

From Time Magazine Archive

I think, though, the most laughable incident that has come under my notice was that of a certain plebe who made himself famous for gourmandizing.

From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Flipper, Henry Ossian