gormandizer
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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 Leonard Woolsey Bacon
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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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 Emma Goldman
On the same principle, the gormandizer needs more of this element than the person of abstemious habits.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
The prospectus said that the best and most wholesome food would be served out to us in abundance, and to look at the bill of fare one would think it enough to satisfy any gormandizer.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer
