eat+greedily

  • 31gobble — verb must you gobble your food so? he gobbled down every last crumb the dogs gobbled up their kibble Syn: eat greedily, eat hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp (down), devour, wolf (down), gorge (oneself) on; informal tuck into, put away, pack away,… …

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  • 32scarf — 1. noun she wore a scarf Syn: muffler, headscarf, mantilla, stole, tippet; kerchief, neckerchief, bandanna, babushka 2. verb, informal stop scarfing your food! we scarfed down the entire batch of cookies …

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  • 33batten — I v 1. grow fat, fatten, plump up or out, fill out, flesh out, round out. 2. glut, gormandize, Archaic. gluttonize, feast, banquet; cloy, gorge, cram, stuff, Sl. fill to the gills; overeat, overfeed, overstuff, overfill, overdo, overdose, Sl. o.d …

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  • 34fill — v 1. fill up, fill to the brim, fill to overflowing, overfill, stuff, overstuff, crowd, overcrowd, congest; load or load down, lade, burden, overburden; cram, force down or in, ram down, pack in, push in, shove in, press in, jam, squeeze, pack… …

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  • 35pork out — 1. v. eat excessively; overeat 2. v. eat greedily and quickly …

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  • 36guttle — verb eat greedily he devoured three sandwiches • Syn: ↑devour, ↑raven, ↑pig • Derivationally related forms: ↑pig (for: ↑pig) …

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  • 37Cram — Cram, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. [1913 Webster] Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive… …

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  • 38Equivorous — E*quiv o*rous, a. [L. equus horse + vorare to eat greedily.] Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars. [1913 Webster] || …

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  • 39Fungivorous — Fun*giv o*rous, a. [L. fungus + vorare to eat greedily: cf. F. fongivore.] (Zo[ o]l.) Eating fungi; said of certain insects and snails. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 40Gobble — Gob ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gobbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gobbling}.] [Freq. of 2d gob.] [1913 Webster] 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. [1913 Webster] Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter (a sound) like… …

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