Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To eat voraciously; indulge the appetite to excess; live luxuriously. Also spelled gluttonise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb eat a lot and without restraint

Etymologies

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glutton +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • For a change, J and I decided to not gluttonize ourselves at a korean AYCE restaurant, and headed over to Soot Bull Jeep.

    Archive 2007-03-01 e d b m 2007

  • For a change, J and I decided to not gluttonize ourselves at a korean AYCE restaurant, and headed over to Soot Bull Jeep.

    Soot Bull Jeep, Koreatown - Dinner In A Chimney e d b m 2007

  • When you come down, it'll be my turn to show you good places to gluttonize at.

    San Francisco Good Eats #1 - Grease and Organs e d b m 2006

  • Because it's an honest sketch of America's tendency to gluttonize.

    Taco Town. Opening soon? e d b m 2006

  • Because it's an honest sketch of America's tendency to gluttonize.

    Archive 2006-03-01 e d b m 2006

  • I will not recriminate upon thee, Belford, as I might, when thou flatterest thyself that thou never ruinedst the morals of any young creature, who otherwise would not have been corrupted — the palliating consolation of an Hottentot heart, determined rather to gluttonize on the garbage of other foul feeders than to reform. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And three, I want to make sure that my friends gluttonize and make unfulfillable resolutions for the New Year - like working out at the gym.

    The Gift of Gluttony: Part One - The Osso Buco Veal Shanks Recipe e d b m 2005

  • And three, I want to make sure that my friends gluttonize and make unfulfillable resolutions for the New Year - like working out at the gym.

    Archive 2005-12-01 e d b m 2005

  • Virgil's representative among us, though the body gluttonize, and as for arms, bees, or even the plough, Cowan takes his trips abroad with a

    Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

  • Self - sacrilegious demigod that I was, was I going to gluttonize on the very offerings, laid before me in my own sacred fane?

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

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