Definitionn. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Last update: January 13, 2016
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I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras. [noun]
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Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?--what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating? [noun]
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As the gourmand says in 'Richelieu,' 'What's diplomacy compared to a delicious pâté.' [noun]
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It is still active, and as much of a gourmand as ever. [noun]
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--Dis donc, vieux gourmand, tu ne t'inquietes guere de ca toi.' [Please select]
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Nick found no difficulty in eating this--it was a dish fit for any gourmand. [noun]
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Not that he was an epicure, or a gourmand, or luxurious, or a hard drinker, or anything of that sort--by no means. [Please select]
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Chigwooltz, I found, is a perfect gourmand and a cannibal, eating, besides his regular diet of flies and beetles and water snails, young frogs, and crawfish, and turtles, and fish of every kind. [Please select]
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