Sunday, January 17, 2021

Love eating? Join the club.

Are you a type of person who eats to live or lives to eat? Are you exercising to eat or eating just to fuel yourself to work out? Whatever you are, we all need to eat, and most of us enjoy tasty foods. Let us go over the difference between the following words.

 

gourmet: a connoisseur in food and drink and the discriminating enjoyment of them

(* synonyms: gastronome, epicure, foodie)

 

gourmand: a person who loves eating but often eats greedily or too much

(*synonyms: glutton, stuffer, gobbler, gutbucket, swiller, guzzler)

 


Time to practice using the right word in the following given sentences. You have a clue letter or two for each blank.

 

    1.  After the sw_____________ had her fill, she could not even sit still with her pants fully zipped.

 

    2.   Chef Pasidaro is such a _________met baker that people with fine taste get in line for because of her one-of-a-kind cakes and muffins.

 

    3. James is a __________tton who repeats binge-eating and drinking to a dangerous level.

 

    4.   They used to call Betsy an epi___________, because she has a discriminating taste for fine foods and beverages.

 

    5.   Timothy is a f___________ that has a special interest in or knowledge of food and even used to travel around the world to explore the world of exotic foods.

 

    6.   Matt, please don’t be a ________bbler at the party tonight. Nobody there would eat without decorum.

 

    7.   The banquet will make a fun present for any _____tronome and wine connoisseur.

 

 


Answer Keys  

    1.  swiller

    2.  gourmet

    3.  glutton

    4.  epicure

    5.  foodie

    6.  gobbler

    7.  gastronome

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