Meanings
- uncountableExcessive devotion to eating or food.
Explaining "gastrolatry," worship of the stomach god, Bakhtin points out the saving nature of this kind of devotion.
1988, L. S. Dembo, The monological Jew: a literary study, page 712 more examples
Gastrolatry, indeed, is a worship which, at one time or other, has prevailed in different forms over all parts of the world — its history takes an extensive range, and is not altogether without interest.
1874, Thomas Wright, A History of English Culture from the Earliest Known Period to Modern TimesTausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.
1887, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Dishes and Drinks: Or, Philosophy in the Kitchen, page 197
Origin
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