gavage

English

Etymology

From French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”)

Noun

gavage (uncountable)

1. A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
2. A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
3. (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach

Translations

process of force-feeding a goose

French: gavage (fr) f.

Verb

gavage (third-person singular simple present gavages, present participle gavaging, simple past and past participle gavaged)

1. To stuff or glut with something
   • 2009 January 8, Mike Albo, “Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago”:

     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.

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French

Noun

gavage m. (plural gavages)

1. gavage (all senses)