re "foodie"

[Victor Steinbok]

By the way, I need to be educated here. OED lists Gourmet b. as
"attributive and quasi-adjective". Is there any reason why "gourmet
food" or "gourmet meal" does not have "gourmet" as just an adjective? It
might have been attributive initially (i.e., food fit for a gourmet),
but that is certainly not how it is used now. To make things even more
interesting, we now have gourmet cuts, gourmet spices, gourmet
preparations, gourmet quality, etc.

     VS-)

On 12/8/2011 11:32 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> But it's /not/ a "complete synonym of 'gourmet'"!
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 12/8/2011 8:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> LH
>

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