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gormandise

gormandise is the alternative spelling of gourmandise.

Meaning of gourmandise

Verb

gourmandise (third-person singular simple present gourmandises, present participle gourmandising, simple past and past participle gourmandised)

  1. To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
    • I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, / So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; / But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. / Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; / Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape / For thee thrice wider than for other men.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    Synonyms:
    guttle

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Forms of gormandise

third-person singular presentgormandises
present participlegormandising
past participlegormandised
pastgormandised

Origin of gormandise

From gormand + -ise.

Questions about gormandise

What is gormandise the alternative spelling of?
Gormandise is the alternative spelling of gourmandise.

Words near gormandise in the dictionary

  1. Gorman
  2. gormand
  3. Gormandale
  4. gormander
  5. gormanders
  6. gormandise
  7. gormandised
  8. gormandiser
  9. gormandisers
  10. gormandises
  11. gormandising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gormandise (page history and authors); gourmandise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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