gormandizer

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The “lunch” turned out to be a seven course dinner and each course introduced such an enticing and unusual dish that every member of the party became an audacious gormandizer.

From Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god."

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.

From Omega, the Man by Morey, Leo