Meaning & use
foodie
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Meanings
nouncountableinformal
A person who is passionately interested in food and enjoys trying and talking about new dishes and restaurants.
Grammar: Countable: a foodie, two foodies.
Patterns
- a foodie who likes something
- a foodie at heart
My sister is a real foodie and plans every trip around restaurants.
The new market is a paradise for foodies.
As a foodie, he keeps a notebook of every dish he has loved.
adjectivebefore a nouninformal
Relating to or aimed at people who love good food.
Grammar: Comes before a noun: a foodie festival, not the festival is foodie.
Patterns
- a foodie destination
- a foodie blog
The town is now a popular foodie destination.
She runs a foodie blog about street food around the world.
We joined a foodie tour of the old city.
Word forms
| plural | foodies |
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Common combinations
- self-confessed foodie
- As a self-confessed foodie, she tried every stall.
- foodie destination
- Lyon is a famous foodie destination.
- foodie paradise
- The night market is a foodie paradise.
- die-hard foodie
- Only a die-hard foodie would queue two hours for a taco.
- foodie blog
- Her foodie blog has thousands of readers.
Synonyms and how they differ
- gourmet
- A gourmet is an expert in fine food and drink and sounds more refined, while a foodie can enjoy simple street food too.
- epicure
- Epicure is a formal, rather old-fashioned word for someone who loves refined pleasures of eating, whereas foodie is casual and modern.
- gastronome
- Gastronome sounds scholarly and focuses on the art of eating well, while foodie is relaxed.
- glutton
- A glutton eats too much and is a criticism, whereas a foodie cares about quality and variety, not quantity.
Word family
- food noun
- what people and animals eat
- foodism noun
- the enthusiasm for good food as a culture
- food lover noun
- a plain phrase for someone who enjoys eating well
- foody adjective
- a rarer variant spelling of foodie
Commonly confused: foodie or glutton?
foodie vs glutton
A glutton eats too much and is criticized for it. A foodie loves good food and is usually described in a positive way.
Practice
Which person is best described as a foodie?
Choose one answer.
A foodie has a passion for exploring good food. Eating a large amount describes a glutton, and the other options do not show an interest in food.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “foodie”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.