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