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Gormandizer

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gor·mand·ize  (gôrmn-dz)
v. gor·mand·ized, gor·mand·iz·ing, gor·mand·iz·es
v.intr.
To eat gluttonously; gorge.
v.tr.
To devour (food) gluttonously.

[From gourmandise, gluttony (obsolete).]

gormand·izer n.


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At length his place was found vacant at meal-time; no one knew when he went off, or whither he had gone, but he was seen no more, and the vast surplus that remained when the repast was over, showed what a mighty gormandizer had departed.
One of them(more brutal than his fellows, and the most notorious gormandizer in the crew) said such a cruel and wicked thing, that I wonder the mere thought did not turn him into a wild beast, in shape, as he already was in his nature.
 
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