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gourmandize

gourmandize 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 gourmandize

third-person singular presentgourmandizes
present participlegourmandizing
past participlegourmandized
pastgourmandized

Words formed from gourmandize

Questions about gourmandize

What is gourmandize the alternative spelling of?
Gourmandize is the alternative spelling of gourmandise.

Words near gourmandize in the dictionary

  1. gourmandise
  2. gourmandised
  3. gourmandises
  4. gourmandising
  5. gourmandism
  6. gourmandize
  7. gourmandized
  8. gourmandizer
  9. gourmandizers
  10. gourmandizes
  11. gourmandizing

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