gluttonize

English edit

Alternative forms edit

gluttonise

Etymology edit

Verb edit

gluttonize (third-person singular simple present gluttonizes, present participle gluttonizing, simple past and past participle gluttonized)

(intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
- 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
  the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices
- 2013, William G. Tapply, Close to the Bone:
  Mayflies are among Mother Nature's most graceful and beautiful creations, and I think I'd believe that even if trout didn't gluttonize on them when they ride on a stream's currents to dry their wings.

Translations edit

to eat an excessive amount

Bulgarian: тъпча се (tǎpča se), ям лакомо (jam lakomo)
Finnish: mässäillä (fi)

References edit

“gluttonize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.