gormandised

Updated: June 5, 2025

They were fine times for feasting when the thaw had set in, for then, as the earth grew soft, the worms would come crawling out to have a stretch, after being asleep beneath the iron-bound earth. As for the rooks, they ate until they could hardly move, and gormandised in a way that could only be excused in things that could not get their meals at regular times.

George Manville Fenn - Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn

I could never go into the smoking-room but he would come wallowing towards me, and sometimes he came and gormandised round and about me while I had my lunch. He seemed at times almost to be clinging to me.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

I could never go into the smoking-room but he would come wallowing towards me, and sometimes he came and gormandised round and about me while I had my lunch. He seemed at times almost to be clinging to me.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream