gourmandizer

English

Etymology

From gourmandize +‎ -er.

Noun

gourmandizer (plural gourmandizers)

  1. One who gourmandizes.
    • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee:
      It was quite amusing, too, to see with what earnestness they disclaimed all cannibal propensities on their own part, while they denounced their enemies—the Typees—as inveterate gourmandizers of human flesh […]
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