The corpus record

χανδόν

chandon

with mouth wide open, greedily, eagerly

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What it meant — LSJ

with mouth wide open, greedily, eagerly

with mouth wide open, greedily, eagerly, [οἶνον] χ. ἑλεῖν Od. 21.294, cf. Call. Aet. 1.1.11 [Fr. 178.11 Pf.], Nic. Th. 341, Opp. C. 4.430 (cj.), etc.; in late Prose χ. ἐκπιεῖν, πιέσθαι, πίνειν, Gal. 15.735, Luc. Merc.Cond. 7, Jul. Mis. 338c; σπᾶν D.C. 71.10; metaph., χ. ἐνεπίμπλαντο εὐχῶν Luc. Alex. 14; χ. ἐμπιπλάμενος τοῦ ὕπνου Philostr. Im. 2.22.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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