gluttonize

English

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Etymology

glutton +‎ -ize

Verb

gluttonize (third-person singular simple present gluttonizes, present participle gluttonizing, simple past and past participle gluttonized)

  1. (intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hallywell to this entry?)
    • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gluttonize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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