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Gourmet

//ɡʊɹˈmeɪ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fine; of superior quality. not-comparable

    "We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe."

Noun
  1. 1
    A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.

    "The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects."

  2. 2
    a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.

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