foodie
Plural: foodies
Noun
- A person keenly interested in food, especially eating and cooking.
- a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
- A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
Examples
- Even a FOODIE playing Words With Friends sometimes has to settle for "EAT" instead of "GASTRONOMY."
- We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.
Origin / Etymology
From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.
Synonyms
bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet, chowhound, foodist, foodista, gastronaut, gourmand
Scrabble Score: 10
foodie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfoodie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
foodie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary