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foodista

foodista noun: a foodie; a gourmet.

Noun

foodista (plural foodistas)

  1. (rare) A foodie; a gourmet.
    • If you were expecting goat on the menu, you are out of luck except for the goat cheese garnish to salad, a topping for burgers and a flavor enhancement to smashed potatoes. No goat curries, ragus, barbecue or ribs. No trendlet “chevon” to tempt the foodistas. Not even a Coach Farm cheesecaket.2013 September 17, Deidre Schipani, “Green Goat grazes on penchant for local, homestyle”, in The Post and Courier—Charleston Scene
    • Edith Wharton, a foodista who knows better, links only unidentified cheeses to unhappy love affairs in Summer and Hudson River Bracketed.2016, Walter Levy, “picnic”, in Catherine Donnelly, editor, The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 568

Forms of foodista

pluralfoodistas

Origin of foodista

From food + -ista. Piecewise doublet of foodist.

Questions about foodista

What does foodista mean?
Foodista means a foodie; a gourmet.
What part of speech is foodista?
Foodista is a noun.
What is the plural of foodista?
The plural of foodista is foodistas.

Words near foodista in the dictionary

  1. foodiest
  2. foodification
  3. foodious
  4. foodism
  5. foodist
  6. foodista
  7. foodistas
  8. foodists
  9. foodland
  10. foodlands
  11. foodlegger

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