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foodie

/ˈfuːdi/

foodie noun: a person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.

Noun

foodie (plural foodies)

  1. (colloquial) A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
    • We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.
    • She offers crayfish with white feet or red . . . three ways, tends stove in high heels, slips into the small Art Deco dining room of Restaurant d'Olympe—a funeral parlor of shiny black walls and red velvet—to graze cheeks with her devotees, serious foodies, and, from ten on, tout Paris, the men as...1980 June 2, Gael Greene, “What's Nouvelle? La Cuisine Bourgeoise”, in New York, →ISSN, page 33

foodie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Punjabi

foodie in Hindi

person with special interest in food
भुक्कड़ bhukkaṛ

foodie in Tamil

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foodie in Malayalam

person with special interest in food
ഭോജനപ്രിയൻ bhōjanapriyaṉ

foodie in Punjabi

ਖਾਣ-ਪੀਣ ਦਾ ਸ਼ੌਕੀਨ
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foodie in Gujarati
ખાદ્યપદાર્થો શોખીન

Examples of foodie in a sentence

  • Knowing what a foodie Mary was, I inquired about the Russian food.
  • For the first time ever, foodies achieved the celebrityhood of rock stars and movie stars.
  • With sky-high rents and an endless lineup of buzzy eateries, NYC could be seen as a foodie call free-for-all.

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Synonyms of foodie

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Forms of foodie

pluralfoodies

Origin of foodie

From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.

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Questions about foodie

What does foodie mean?
Foodie means a person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
What is foodie in Hindi?
Foodie in Hindi is भुक्कड़ (bhukkaṛ). See Foodie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is foodie?
Foodie is a noun.
How do you pronounce foodie?
Foodie is pronounced /ˈfuːdi/.
What is the plural of foodie?
The plural of foodie is foodies.

Words near foodie in the dictionary

  1. foodful
  2. foodgasm
  3. foodgasms
  4. foodgrain
  5. foodgrains
  6. foodie
  7. foodie call
  8. foodie-ism
  9. foodier
  10. foodies
  11. foodiest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foodie (page history and authors); foodie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foodie (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); foodie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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