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food and drink;<br />

• (connoisseur)- a person who is especially competent to pass critical<br />

judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste,<br />

( ; ; ); For the<br />

music connoisseur, the music that a piano creates is so sweet and pleasant<br />

that it makes listening to it worthwhile;<br />

gourmand = trencherman = glutton^ glut<br />

• (trencherman)- a hearty eater; He was a valiant trencherman, and strong<br />

drink was a passion and a weakness with him. — Conan -- The Stories from<br />

Weird Tales (1932-1936);<br />

• (glutton)- a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously,<br />

( ; ); She is a little bit of a glutton is my Jane, and she<br />

overate herself at tea at the Singletons'. — A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls;<br />

• (glut)- to feed or fill to excess; cloy, ( );<br />

• to feed or fill to satiety; sate, ( ); The<br />

manufacturers glutted the market and could not find purchasers for the many<br />

articles they had produced;<br />

gorge = glut = overeat = binge = pig out = stuff oneself<br />

• (gorge)- to stuff with food, ( ; ); The<br />

gluttonous guests gorged himself with food as though he had not eaten for<br />

days;<br />

• a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, esp. one through which a stream<br />

runs, ( ); But what makes the site special is the vertigo-<br />

inducing gorge, which is covered with moss and plants;<br />

• (binge)- a drunken spree or revel; He and I decided to go on a<br />

monumental binge, trying to hit every bar and officer's club in the sector. —<br />

The Forever War;<br />

• (pig out)- an instance of overindulging in eating; food binge;<br />

• (stuff oneself)- to overeat;<br />

cloy = pall = surfeit = sate = satiate > insatiable : voracious = ravening =<br />

ravenous = rapacious = insatiable = esurient = edacious : crave : aspire<br />

• (cloy)- to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit;<br />

satiate, ( , ,<br />

); The pudding was creamy without being cloying, and the<br />

thin pour of wine over the top was a stroke of genius. — Monster Munching;<br />

• (pall)- to have a wearying or tiresome effect , (<br />

); "The novelty of being thoroughly<br />

outclassed soon palls, I would imagine." — Mary Balogh - Lady with a Black

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