gourmand:
(plural: ‘gourmands‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ in this word rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in the word “garden”; and the letters ‘ou’ give out the sound ‘oo’ as in “good” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who eats too much food, especially the one who is more interested in the quantity of the food than its quality;
a glutton,
a typical gourmand
While a gourmand is a person who likes to eat too much food, a gourmet is a person who knows about and likes to have good quality and tasty food; however, there are occasions when ‘gourmand’ and ‘gourmet‘ (next entry) are used interchangeably!
When he visits an expensive restaurant, Ted becomes a real gourmand, eating a lot of food and leaving nothing that’s put on the table because he thinks that when you pay so much money on each dish, there is no point leaving anything on the plate!
We usually think of non-vegetarian eaters when we talk about gourmands, but what we should remember is that there are equal number of vegetarian gourmands who eat too much vegetarian foods.
What a gourmand!
