gastrolatry
gastrolatry noun: excessive devotion to eating or food.
Noun
gastrolatry (uncountable)
- Excessive devotion to eating or food.
- Gastrolatry, indeed, is a worship which, at one time or other, has prevailed in different forms over all parts of the world — its history takes an extensive range, and is not altogether without interest.1874, Thomas Wright, A History of English Culture from the Earliest Known Period to Modern Times
- Tausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.1887, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Dishes and Drinks: Or, Philosophy in the Kitchen, page 197
Origin of gastrolatry
From gastro- + -latry.
Questions about gastrolatry
- What does gastrolatry mean?
- Gastrolatry means excessive devotion to eating or food.
- What part of speech is gastrolatry?
- Gastrolatry is a noun.
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