gormandizer
Example Sentences
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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
But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer.
From Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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
A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
