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: […]...
   • 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.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)

   Synonyms:

   guttle

Noun

US/ɡʊɹmənˈdiz/UK/ɡʊəmənˈdiːz/

gourmandise (uncountable)

1. gluttony