opsophagos means A glutton, a gourmand, chiefly one who hogs and eats excessive amounts of fish. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
OPSOPHAGOS — [Noun] One whose gluttony specializes in the consumption of delicacies, especially fish, with rapacious, ruinous excess. From Ancient Greek ὄψον (ópson, "relish, delicacy, cooked fish") + φάγος (phágos, "glutton, eater"). Unlike a gourmet, which implies refined, aesthetic discernment, or an ichthyophage, a coldly biological term for any fish-eater, the opsophagos is a creature of singular, moralized craving. He is the senator gorging on murex sauce until his toga stains imperial purple; the merchant bankrupting himself for the first bonito of the season; the solitary diner consuming thirty pieces of otoro not for flavor but for the obliterating act itself—a portrait of how the pursuit of the rarest pleasure hollows a man more completely than any famine, where pleasure and compulsion become indistinguishable.
noun
- A glutton, a gourmand, chiefly one who hogs and eats excessive amounts of fish.“How does this help us with the opsophagoi listed by Athenaeus′ comic poets and anecdotalists and their feats of consumption?”