Definition of Gormandizing

1. Verb. (present participle of gormandize) ¹

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Definition of Gormandizing

1. gormandize [v] - See also: gormandize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gormandizing

gorm
gorma
gormand
gormander
gormanders
gormandise
gormandised
gormandises
gormandising
gormandism
gormandize
gormandized
gormandizer
gormandizers
gormandizes
gormandizing (current term)
gormands
gormanite
gormanites
gormed
gormier
gormiest
gorming
gormless
gormlessly
gormlessness
gorms
gormy
gornos

Literary usage of Gormandizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"ON THE gormandizing SCHOOL OF ELOQUENCE. No. I. Mill). ... what is he when brought into rivalry with some glutton of the gormandizing School, inspired by a ..."

2. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... Crooks and a Grizzly Bear — The Wigwam — Bighorn and Black-Tails — Unwelcome Guests — gormandizing Exploits of Hungry Savages — Good Quarters Abandoned. ..."

3. Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are by West (Jane) (1806)
"... of materials to the gormandizing appetite of readers, that it is indeed doubtful ... gormandizing ..."

4. Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the by Richard Ryan (1826)
"His propensity to gormandizing was so great, that many historians make no mention of him but asa notorious glutton, whose other qualities were too trifling ..."

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