foodie

[foo-dee]

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noun Slang.

a person keenly interested in food, especially in eating or cooking.

Origin of foodie

food + -ie, perhaps in part extracted from junkie

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Related Words for foodie

hedonist, sensualist, connoisseur, gourmet, gastronome, glutton, gourmand

Examples from the Web for foodie

Contemporary Examples of foodie

Surveys may portray us as picky, but in reality our foodie culture is thriving as never before.
Brits Are Very Fussy Eaters
Emma Woolf
August 5, 2014
And Nutella can play the foodie card only in America, Leong points out.
How Nutella Conquered America
Emily Shire
May 21, 2014
And so I went to talk to him about food and our foodie moment.
This Book Will Change the Way You Eat
Lucas Wittmann
December 19, 2013
AM: As far as me being a foodie... If a foodie means that I love to eat food, then yes, I am a foodie.
Today's Special Spices Up the Big Screen
Shefali Kulkarni
November 23, 2010
All these foodie facts also humanize people often seen as larger-than-life.
Eating With the Stars
Kara Cutruzzula
August 3, 2010

Historical Examples of foodie

But sure the boys' kep their word to him, anyhow, in regard of shootin' Foodie Flattery.
Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories
William Carleton
The state of the country, and Foodie's character, justified his apprehension on suspicion.
Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories
William Carleton

British Dictionary definitions for foodie

foodie

foody

noun plural -ies

a person having an enthusiastic interest in the preparation and consumption of good food

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Word Origin and History for foodie

"gourmet," 1982, from food + -ie.