chowing
Wolfing down food
Chowing is eating, especially with enthusiasm or urgency.
The word comes from chow, informal for food or a meal.
We were chowing on pizza when the power went out.
To chow down emphasizes hearty consumption: The kids chowed down after practice.
Chewing food steadily
- gobblingEating fast and messily
- devouringEating greedily and quickly
- scarfingEating very quickly
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
noshing · feasting · snacking · grazing · nibbling · chomping · gorging · snarfing
Digging up roots
- noshingEating lightly, informally
- scarfingEating very quickly
- snarfingEating greedily and quickly
- scoffingMocking with contempt
tucking · inhaling · pigging · wolfing · hoovering · demolishing · polishing off · putting away
munching
Chewing food steadily
wolfing · noshing · feasting · snacking · grazing · nibbling · chomping · gorging · snarfing · ingesting
grubbing
Digging up roots
scoffing · tucking · inhaling · pigging · wolfing · hoovering · demolishing · polishing off · putting away · packing away
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
voracious · insatiable · craving · peckish · gluttonous · greedy · wolfish · piggish · appetite · pangs
satiated
Desire fully gratified
satisfied · replete · nourished · quenched · indulged · gratified · savoring · relishing · enjoying · fulfilled
chowingnibbling
Eating in small bites
picking at · pecking at · eating like a bird · picking · grazing
chowingfasting
Deliberate food avoidance
starving · abstaining · going hungry · dieting · skipping meals
- chowing downEating with gusto