gourmand

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (a glutton, noun), from gormant (gluttonous, adjective), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

gourmand (plural gourmands)

  1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
    • 1603 (first performance; published 1605), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Seianus his Fall. A Tragœdie. []”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: [] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, page 365:
      I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 5:
      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.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Adjective[edit]

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

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

Noun[edit]

gourmand m (plural gourmands, feminine gourmande)

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

Usage notes[edit]

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.

Descendants[edit]

  • Czech: gurmán
  • Portuguese: gourmand
  • Romanian: gurmand

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Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

gourmand m

  1. (Jersey) greedy

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French gourmand.

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gourmand m or f by sense (plural gourmands)

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

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Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

gourmand c

  1. someone who enjoys eating a lot of (good) food; a gourmand

Declension[edit]

Declension of gourmand 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gourmand gourmanden gourmander gourmanderna
Genitive gourmands gourmandens gourmanders gourmandernas

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