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gastroporn

gastroporn noun: enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.

Noun

gastroporn (uncountable)

  1. Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.
    • Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.1998 September 21, Julian Barnes, “Deceptively Simple”, in The New Yorker
    Synonyms:
    foodporn

Synonyms of gastroporn

Origin of gastroporn

From gastro- + porn.

Questions about gastroporn

What does gastroporn mean?
Gastroporn means enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.
What part of speech is gastroporn?
Gastroporn is a noun.

Words near gastroporn in the dictionary

  1. gastropodochory
  2. gastropodous
  3. gastropods
  4. gastropore
  5. gastropores
  6. gastroporn
  7. gastroprokinetic
  8. gastroprotectant
  9. gastroprotectants
  10. gastroprotection
  11. gastroprotective

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