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 Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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 Weitemeyer, Thorvald

The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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

He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence