gourmandise

verb
/ˈɡʊɹməndaɪz/US/ˈɡʊəməndaɪz/UK/ɡʊɹmənˈdiz/US/ɡʊəmənˈdiːz/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French gourmandise.

  1. borrowed from gourmandise

Definitions

  1. To eat food in a gluttonous manner

    To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.

    • A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising, whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient’s judgment, been examining.
  2. gluttony

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