different between gormandise vs gourmandise

English

Etymology

gormand +? -ise

Verb

gormandise (third-person singular simple present gormandises, present participle gormandising, simple past and past participle gormandised)

1. Alternative spelling of gourmandise

Anagrams

• Erdo?anism

English

Etymology 1

gourmand +? -ise

Alternative forms

• gormandise
• gourmandize
• gormandize

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????m?nda?z/, /??o?-/, /????-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????m?nda?z/, /????-/
• Hyphenation: gour?mand?ise

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.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IV, Happy

     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.

   • 2000, Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution, Pimlico (2001), ?ISBN, page 2:

     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.

   • 2008, Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me!, Matador (2008), ?ISBN, page 146:

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• guttle

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gourmandise.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???m?n?diz/, /??o?-/, /????-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m?n?di?z/, /????-/
• Hyphenation: gour?man?dise

Noun

gourmandise (uncountable)

1. gluttony

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?.m??.diz/

Noun

gourmandise f (plural gourmandises)

1. delicacy (a pleasing food)
2. (uncountable) culinary taste; joie de manger
3. (uncountable) gluttony

Further reading

• “gourmandise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).