gorger

Example Sentences

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Balzac is scolded for being “an ecstatic, compulsive gorger and borderline glutton” who devoured “congealed cold cuts and other toxic snacks.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

A gorger or gorgio—the two are often confounded—is the common Gipsy word for one who is not Gipsy, and very often means with them a rye or gentleman, and indeed any man whatever. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

The gorger or gourmand may not be particular about the kind of food that is given him, but he desires a large quantity, more than is good for him.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

I have seen this word printed as gorger in English slang. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey