gavage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/, /ɡæˈvɑːʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːʒ

Noun

gavage (uncountable)

1. A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
2. A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
3. (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach

Translations

process of force-feeding a goose

• French: gavage (fr) f

feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach

• French: gavage (fr) f

Verb

gavage (third-person singular simple present gavages, present participle gavaging, simple past and past participle gavaged)

1. To stuff or glut with something
   • 2009 January 8, Mike Albo, “Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one.

French

Noun

gavage m (plural gavages)

1. gavage (all senses)

Further reading

• “gavage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.