gluttonize

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Etymology

glutton + -ize

Verb

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

  1. (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.

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