gormandize
Verb: 1. To eat greedily and to excess; to overindulge in food: The primary meaning is to consume food in a voracious, immoderate, and often gluttonous manner. 2. To devour food ravenously: This emphasizes the speed and lack of restraint in eating.
The verb "gormandize" describes the act of eating with excessive enthusiasm and lack of control. It is often used in a critical or humorous tone to highlight gluttony. * After the long fast, he proceeded to gormandize on the entire feast. * She didn't just eat the cake; she gormandized it. * The critics accused the character of being a buffoon who could do nothing but gormandize.
- Connotation: "Gormandize" carries a stronger negative connotation than synonyms like "overeat." It implies a vulgar, animalistic lack of table manners and self-control, not merely consuming too much.
- Formality: It is a somewhat formal or literary word. In everyday speech, words like "pig out," "binge," or "stuff oneself" are more common.
- Transitive and Intransitive Use: It can be used both with and without a direct object.
- Intransitive: He gormandized at the buffet.
- Transitive: He gormandized three hamburgers in five minutes.
- Gormandise: The British English spelling variant.
- Gourmand (noun): A person who enjoys eating and often eats too much. This is the source noun for the verb "gormandize." Note: Do not confuse with gourmet, which is a connoisseur of fine food and drink.
- Gormandizer (noun): A person who gormandizes; a glutton.
- Overindulge: To have too much of something enjoyable, especially food or drink.
- Binge: To indulge in an activity, especially eating, to excess for a short period.
- Devour: To eat quickly and hungrily.
- Wolf down: To eat something very quickly.
- Stuff oneself: (Informal) To eat so much that one feels uncomfortably full.
- Nibble: To eat small amounts of food.
- Fast: To abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink.
- Diet: To restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food.
- Peck at: To eat only very small amounts of food without interest.
While there is no common idiom using the exact word "gormandize," the concept is captured in several idioms: * To eat like a horse: To eat a very large amount of food. * To make a pig of oneself: To overeat greedily. * To pack it away: (Informal) To eat a large quantity of food.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream