re "foodie"

[Victor Steinbok]

But it's /not/ a "complete synonym of 'gourmet'"!

     VS-)

On 12/8/2011 8:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> But even if the OED's Greene cite does turn out to be unantedateable, their definition--basically treating "foodie" as a complete synonym of "gourmet", seems a bit off, if only because of the sort of people each term evokes (in both the U.S. and the U.K., as far as I can tell).
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> LH

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