Gourmand vs Gourmandizer - What's the difference?
gourmand | gourmandizer |
A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
*:That great gourmand , fat Apicius
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
A person who appreciates good food.
One who gourmandizes.
* 1846 , Herman Melville, Typee
As nouns the difference between gourmand and gourmandizer
is that gourmand is a person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater while gourmandizer is one who gourmandizes.gourmand
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Alternative forms
* gormandNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person given to excess consumption) glutton, trencherman, see also * (person who appreciates food) chowhound, gastronaut, gourmet * (person with a special interest or knowledge of food) foodieDerived terms
* gourmandismgourmandizer
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Noun
(en noun)- It was quite amusing, too, to see with what earnestness they disclaimed all cannibal propensities on their own part, while they denounced their enemies—the Typees—as inveterate gourmandizers of human flesh