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Definition of Gormandizers
1. gormandizer [n] - See also: gormandizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gormandizers
Literary usage of Gormandizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... as he proceeds to say. But for the connection of the sentence,/«?«/«-« might
here well mean eaters, gormandizers ; but the context fixes the sense, ..."
2. The Young Mother: Or, Management of Children in Regard to Health by William Andrus Alcott (1838)
"gormandizers. General rule for preventing disease. When to call a physician.
So much error prevails in regard to the medical management of the young, ..."
3. Notes of Travel and Life by Mendell, Sarah Mendell, Miss Hosmer, Miss Mendell, Charlotte Hosmer (1854)
"Was I among a race of gormandizers ? Ah no ! I had heard the same expressions
from very small eaters—only a weak way of showing one's generosity—a desire to ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"They invited the dancing-men and the dancing-women, and the gormandizers, and
the epicures of the city, to come and make merry at their expense ; and the ..."
5. Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1887)
"And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two-and-twenty
gormandizers look. Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two and
twenty gormandizers look. Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the ..."
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