gourmandismn.
/ˈɡʊəməndɪz(ə)m/ The principles and practice of a gourmand; love of good fare.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [noun]
lickerousnessc1380
lickerousheadc1450
lickerishness1580
friandise1603
epicurisma1620
gastrology1810
gastronomy1814
gastrophilism1814
gormandize1814
esuriency1819
gourmanderie1823
deipnosophism1824
gastrosophy1824
aristology1835
gourmandism1850
gourmetism1853
opsophagy1854
fine dining1940
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. Introd. 20 His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait.
1869 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1874) ii. 13 We tried to give a better colouring to our gourmandism by inviting the Captain.
1886 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero (new ed.) xxiii. 144 D'Eyncourt —— who to his other vices adds that of gormandism.
Derivatives
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton
glutton?c1225
glutc1394
globberc1400
glofferc1440
gluttoner1482
gourmanda1492
ravener1496
belly1526
golofer1529
lurcher1530
cormorant1531
flesh-fly1532
full-belly1536
belly-godc1540
flap-sauce1540
gourmander1542
gully-gut1542
locust1545
glosser1549
greedy-guts1550
hungry gut1552
belly-slave1562
fill-belly1563
grand paunch1569
belly-paunch1570
belly-swainc1571
trencher-slave1571
slapsauce1573
gorche1577
helluo1583
gormandizer1589
eat-all1598
engorger1598
guts1598
guller1604
gourmandist1607
barathrum1609
eatnell1611
snapsauce1611
Phaeacian?1614
gutling1617
overeater1621
polyphage1623
tenterbelly1628
gut-head1629
stiffgut1630
gobble-guts1632
gulist1632
polyphagian1658
fill-paunch1659
gype1662
gulchin1671
stretch-gut1673
gastrolater1694
gundy-gut1699
guttler1732
gobbler1755
trencher-hero1792
gorger1817
polyphagist1819
battenera1849
stuff-guts1875
chowhound1917
gannet1929
Billy Bunter1939
guzzle-guts1959
garbage can1963
foodaholic1965
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois i. 3 That (like the grosse Sicilian Gurmundist) Emptie their Noses in the Cates they loue, That none may eat but they.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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