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Gourmand

noun
1.
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess.  Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman.



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"Gourmand" Quotes from Famous Books



... Punch something of a gourmand, and each meal has to contain, besides its foundation of wheaten chaff and its piece de resistance of cracked maize, a flavouring of oats—say, three double handfuls—and a thorough sprinkling, well rubbed in, of bran. If the proportions are wrong, or any of the constituents ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... thought of yours to apply to PUNCHINELLO for information regarding Shaksperean readings. To your first question, "Was SHAKSPEARE'S RICHARD III a gourmand?" we reply: undoubtedly he was. By adopting what is obviously the correct reading of the passage—"Shadows to-night," etc., it will be seen that "DICKON" was occasionally a sufferer from ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various


Words linked to "Gourmand" :   glutton, eater, gourmandizer, feeder


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