gormandize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   dated: to eat greedily or in excessive quantities

   The guests gormandized on pies and roast meat until midnight.

A variant of gourmandize, formed from gourmand and the verb-forming suffix -ize, with the spelling influenced by older gormand. It originally meant to behave like a gourmand and developed a strongly disapproving sense of eating greedily.

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