gavage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/, /ɡæˈvɑːʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Noun[edit]
gavage (uncountable)
- A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
- A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
- (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
gavage (third-person singular simple present gavages, present participle gavaging, simple past and past participle gavaged)
- To stuff or glut with something
- 2009 January 8, Mike Albo, “Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago”, in New York Times[1]:
- If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one.
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
gavage m (plural gavages)
- gavage (all senses)
Further reading[edit]
- “gavage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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