gourmandise

English
WOTD – 11 February 2013

Etymology 1

gourmand +‎ -ise

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gourmandise (third-person singular simple present gourmandises, present participle gourmandising, simple past and past participle gourmandised)

  1. To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IV, Happy
      A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising, whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient’s judgment, been examining.
    • 2000, Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution, Pimlico (2001), →ISBN, page 2:
      Even as the envoys from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United States gourmandised their way through the eight savoury courses served on silver plates and the two dessert courses brought in on plates of solid gold, their ears were bombarded by the multiple counterpoint and polyphony of sixteen bands in Mexico City's main square or Zócalo below.
    • 2008, Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me!, Matador (2008), →ISBN, page 146:
      […] but there was no cream, no butter, no foie gras, no soufflés, no beef fillet steaks, no rich sauces or runny cheeses such as I had been gourmandising on for a whole week – not to mention the many bottles of champagne, wine and brandy.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gourmandise.

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Noun

gourmandise (uncountable)

  1. gluttony

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡuʁ.mɑ̃.diz/

Noun

gourmandise f (plural gourmandises)

  1. delicacy (a pleasing food)
  2. (uncountable) culinary taste; joie de manger
  3. (uncountable) gluttony

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