gormandizer

Definition of gormandizernext
as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much an inconsiderate gormandizer who eats his hosts out of house and home

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Noun
  • The Chinese zodiac cycles between 12 animals — the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • My parents were known for their epic new year party, my mom making hundreds of dumplings by hand, often supplementing that with a whole suckling pig and endless bottles of baijiu, a powerful sorghum liquor.
    Natasha Pickowicz, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Pigs possess complex social dynamics but spend their entire short life crowded into hog houses.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
  • State Highway 130 has a stretch with a speed limit of eighty-five miles an hour, the highest in the country; the night the road opened, three cars crashed into feral hogs.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Gormandizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizer. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.

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