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Definition of "gormandizer" [gor•mand•i•zer]

  • A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand (noun)

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Use "gormandizer" in a sentence
  • "He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge."
  • "With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate."
  • "Such was his regard for his patron's memory, that when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire [882], as "a bull's-pizzle, a gormandizer, a braggart, and a tippler, a man whose life and writings were equally monstrous;" besides charging him with being "a most unskilful plagiarist, who borrowed the language of Cato and other old writers.""
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