"gourmandise" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡʊɹmənˈdiz/ [General-American], /ˈɡoɹ-/ [General-American], /ˈɡɔɹ-/ [General-American], /ɡʊəmənˈdiːz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɔː-/ [Received-Pronunciation]
Etymology: Borrowed from French gourmandise. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|gourmandise}} French gourmandise Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} gourmandise (uncountable)
  1. gluttony Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-gourmandise-en-noun-EzV5y0NE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈɡʊɹməndaɪz/ [General-American], /ˈɡoɹ-/ [General-American], /ˈɡɔɹ-/ [General-American], /ˈɡʊəməndaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɔː-/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gourmandise.wav Forms: gourmandises [present, singular, third-person], gourmandising [participle, present], gourmandised [participle, past], gourmandised [past]
Etymology: From gourmand + -ise. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|gourmand|ise}} gourmand + -ise Head templates: {{en-verb}} gourmandise (third-person singular simple present gourmandises, present participle gourmandising, simple past and past participle gourmandised)
  1. To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself. Synonyms: guttle [UK, archaic, dialectal], gourmandize, gormandise, gormandize, gourmondise, gourmondize, gormondise, gormondize [archaic] Translations (to eat food in a gluttonous manner): ям лакомо (jam lakomo) (Bulgarian), лапам (lapam) (Bulgarian), тъпча се (tǎpča se) (Bulgarian), ahmia (Finnish), mässäillä (Finnish), se goinfrer (French), s’empiffrer (French), sich voll fressen (German), frossa (Northern Sami), tıkınmak (Turkish), tıka basa yemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-gourmandise-en-verb-8ux2YXzv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ise, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Northern Sami translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 11 62 10 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 72 7 10 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.