Though she begins by looking for a simple gourmandizing high, Ms. Bone ends her odyssey elegantly, discovering that mushrooms may be the most important—and most hopeful—ingredient of life on Earth. ❋ Richard Mabey (2011)
Listen to John Parker, though, and you almost wonder if we're celebrating the wrong man: "Darwin was an indolent, beetle-collecting, drinking, gourmandizing nobody." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Other tales of Hugo's prodigious powers encompass not only his gourmandizing, but also his colossal appetite for the opposite sex. ❋ TEV (2005)
And the pity of it is this — that a man, if he will only restrain his greed, may eat his cake and yet have it; aye, and in so doing will have twice more the flavour of the cake than he who with gourmandizing maw will devour his dainty all at once. ❋ Unknown (2004)
To praise the fumes too highly, or to inhale too deeply is considered low behavior and leaves the guilty person open to suspicions of gourmandizing. ❋ Vance, Jack (1975)
My sanitarium diet had not prepared me for such gourmandizing as this and I ate steadily while Maxil talked. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1967)
Englishmen learned of him their excessiue gourmandizing & vnmeasurable filling of their panches with meates and drinkes, whereby they forgat the vertuous vse of sobrietie, so much necessarie to all estates and degrées, so profitable for all common-wealthes, and so commendable both in the sight of God, and all good men. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
The damsel apprehending that such interruptions to their interviews might, from the gourmandizing propensities of the favourite, be frequent, determined to prevent them for ever; the very next time that puss, as usual, followed her, seizing with savage exultation the harmless creature, she severed with a huge carving knife, its head from its body! ❋ Various (N/A)
The gourmandizing promised to be chiefly at the criminal tables; and before long it was noted that the noxious gentlemen were gradually drifting back to their native sand dunes, and the rough-riding gave way to a more orderly style of horsemanship. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
Dante and say within himself, "I will be a Dante," but all the world knows that in a few hours he will be gourmandizing as swinishly as before. ❋ Unknown (1898)
I think, though, the most laughable incident that has come under my notice was that of a certain plebe who made himself famous for gourmandizing. ❋ Unknown (1878)
As a king he spent his reign -- so much of it as could be spared from gourmandizing, drunkenness, dalliance with handsome minions of his own sex, and theological pursuits -- in rescuing the Crown from dependence on ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
It's no longer fun to be a gourmandizing sinophile in Toronto. ❋ JOANNE KATES (2011)
I had naturally a great antipathy against comfort-hunting and gourmandizing, particularly on an expedition like ours; on which we started with the full expectation of suffering much privation, but which an Almighty Protector had not only allowed us to escape hitherto, but had even supplied us frequently with an abundance -- in proof of which we all got stronger and improved in health, although the continued riding had rather weakened our legs. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
In this sea of gourmandizing jollity, the less-folksy non-foodie celebs stood out like sore thumbs: Salman Rushdie, U2's the Edge and Helena Christensen maintained a certain air of unavailability by intermittently withdrawing from the general frivolity throughout the evening. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dequan- Ayo my nigga i'm a [gourmand]
Jeff- Tf is that nigga?
Dequan- Food is [lyfe] bitch. [Gourmand] means you love eating food.
Jeff- Nigga [you sound fat] as fuck. ❋ Bootyislyfenigga. (2014)
[Friend]: I'm such a [gourmand]
Me: *[rolls eyes]* ❋ Nahnahnahbro (2017)
An [uncouth] gourmands is someone who believes that anything could be stuffed between two slices of bread or rolled up into a [tortilla].
People who are not afraid of [getting messy] and sometimes wait until they something in their mouths to talk. "Stop being an uncouth gourmand" ❋ Josie-UG (2010)
