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
Charley swallows a great gulp of tea in token of submission and so disperses the Druidical ruins that Miss Smallweed charges her not to gormandize, which "in you girls," she observes, is disgusting.
From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles
V. eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in*; lick, pick, peck; gormandize &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark
What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
Because he paid his half dollar for meals at the taverns on the way, Tilghman seemed to feel himself licensed to gormandize at a beastly rate.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing gormandize
The Merchant of Venice
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Bleak House
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Henry IV, Part 2
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