| 单词 | gourmand |
| 释义 | gourmand (once / 9184 pages) n A gourmand is someone obsessively and unhealthily devoted to eating good food and lots of it. In Monty Python's film "The Meaning of Life," there is a character who literally explodes after eating just one more mint after a big meal. Well, that in a nutshell is a gourmand. Gourmand is not to be confused with gourmet. A gourmet is a connoisseur of good food who enjoys eating but doesn't do so to excess. A gourmet might find himself full in his favorite restaurant, but he would never explode. Both words are from the Medieval French term gourmant, meaning "glutton." WORD FAMILYgourmand: gormandise, gormandize, gourmandism, gourmandize, gourmands+/gormandise: gormandised, gormandising/gormandize: gormandized, gormandizing/gourmandize: gourmandized, gourmandizer, gourmandizing/gourmandizer: gourmandizers USAGE EXAMPLESThe artist has even arranged the array around a full-size wood-and-plastic-foam model of a food truck, the great portable altar of Gen-Y’s gourmand creed. Washington Post(Nov 03, 2016) The gourmands sneezed and coughed while wending through the crowded alleyways of Old Delhi’s pungent spice market on Tuesday. Seattle Times(Oct 26, 2016) It listed 75 "Bib Gourmand" restaurants that serve top-notch food at affordable prices in its latest guide, up from 74 last year. Reuters(Oct 25, 2016) n a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess Syn|Hyper glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman eater, feeder someone who consumes food for nourishment |
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