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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.


gormandize

verb

  1. to eat (food) greedily and voraciously
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a less common variant of gourmandise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈgormandˌizer, noun
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Other Words From

  • gormand·izer noun
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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
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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