gourmandise
/ˈɡʊɹməndaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, / So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; / But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. / Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; / Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape / For thee thrice wider than for other men."
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡʊɹməndaɪz/
- British English: /ˈɡʊəməndaɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
gourmandises (present, singular)
gourmandising (participle, present)
gourmandised (participle, past)
gourmandised (past)
gourmandize (alternative)
gormandise (alternative)
gormandize (alternative)
gourmondise (alternative, archaic)
gourmondize (alternative, archaic)
gormondise (alternative, archaic)
gormondize (alternative, archaic)