gormandizer
Example Sentences
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The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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
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
Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god."
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
