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According to Wikipedia: The word was coined in 1984 by Paul Levy and Ann Barr for their book, The Official Foodie Handbook.
foodie (plural foodies)
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- (slang) a person with a special interest or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
- We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.