Gourmandise (verb)
ger-man-deez
To eat good food, especially to excess.
What a very posh way of saying greedy. Unsurprisingly French, where almost all our high cuisine words come from in English.
Example sentences
“We’re only here to hobnob and gourmandise!”
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