verb
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Meanings
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verb
dated: to eat greedily or in excessive quantities
The guests gormandized on pies and roast meat until midnight.
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Etymology
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.