gourmand

• gormand

Borrowed from Middle French gourmant.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊə.mənd/, /ˈɡʊʁmɑ̃/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɔɹˈmɑnd/, /ˈɡʊɹ.mɑnd/

gourmand (plural gourmands)

1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

     That great gourmand, fat Apicius

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

2. A person who appreciates good food.

• (person given to excess consumption): glutton, trencherman, see also Thesaurus:glutton
• (person who appreciates food): chowhound, gastronaut, gourmet
• (person with a special interest or knowledge of food): foodie

• gourmandism

• gourmet

From Middle French gourmant (“glutton”), originally an adjectival form, from Old French, where it had the sense of trencherman, but of uncertain ultimate origin.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuʁ.mɑ̃/

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• Homophone: gourmands
• Hyphenation: gour‧mand

gourmand (feminine singular gourmande, masculine plural gourmands, feminine plural gourmandes)

1. eating a lot
2. (more recently) having a love for good food, demanding of food quality

gourmand m (plural gourmands, feminine gourmande)

1. a person who eats a lot, or who has refined tastes in food

The French and English usages of this word are false friends. While the English word has evolved to emphasize the excesses of a gourmand, the French word has become more associated with refined tastes in food. See also gourmet, which has considerable overlap with this word.

• “gourmand” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French, where it had the sense of trencherman, but of uncertain ultimate origin

gourmand m

1. (Jersey) greedy

gourmand m, f (plural gourmands)

1. gourmand (person who appreciates good food)
2. gourmand (person who eats too much)

• (person who eats too much): comilão