gormandize

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Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."

From Time Magazine Archive

The dog's stomach is so subject to be deranged that few of these creatures can afford to gormandize; to which failing, however, they are much inclined.

From The Dog by Dinks

Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.

From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner

Moreover, the father betrays certain tendencies to gormandize not altogether in harmony with the profession of an ascetic….

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Singers also are proverbially prone to gormandize; and though the Bird of Paradise unfortunately possessed the smallest mouth in all Singingland, it is astonishing how she pecked!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright