gormandizer

Nov. 6th, 2008 07:24 am
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gormandizer - n., someone who eats gluttonously or ravenously.


The UK spelling is, of course, gormandiser. From French, from gourmand, from Old French gormant, a glutton, of unknown origin, though there are many cognates in eastern Europe.

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