gormandizers

Trees, after being topped, throw off suckers, which are called gormandizers, from each joint, but more especially at the head.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Hipsters, indie-kids, and musical gormandizers with eclectic tastes will love both Rewards and We Are Scientists.

Alex Thornton: We Are Scientists Play First Show Back At The Bowery Ballroom 2010

The stale, impudent insinuations of slander and sedition, with which the gormandizers of power have endeavored to discredit your paper, are so much the more to your honor; for the jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Archive 2006-03-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

The stale, impudent insinuations of slander and sedition, with which the gormandizers of power have endeavored to discredit your paper, are so much the more to your honor; for the jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

What would the Founders say? Glenn Greenwald 2006

Under a noble arch the counters are placed; the attendants occupying a space between them, so that one set attend to the gormandizers who enter by one of the doors, and the rest on the others.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

Hence other planters call them "thieves," and "gormandizers," saying that they suck the sap from the tree, turning all to wood.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

Kan-kiang have developed into shuffling, shirking gormandizers, who peer longingly into every eating-house we pass by and evince a decided tendency to convert their task into a picnic.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Most stragglers were real sufferers, but many of them were ingenious liars, energetic foragers, plunder hunters and gormandizers.

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872

They were cracking in their skins, the blessed gormandizers!

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

You shudder when you think of that budding flesh nibbled bit by bit by four or five hundred gormandizers; the horrified imagination refuses to picture the anguish suffered by the tortured wretch.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869