- 1吃貨、美食愛好者（比「美食家」輕鬆、口語）
A foodie is someone who cares a lot about cooking and eating — new restaurants, good ingredients, how a dish is made. They do not only eat to get full; they enjoy food as a hobby. The word is informal and a bit playful. It is lighter than gourmet or , which can sound grand or old. A foodie might take photos of dinner, follow chefs, or travel to try one famous bowl of . People often call themselves foodies with a smile. Though actually, other people sometimes use it with a tiny roll of the eyes, for someone who talks about food a little too much. It became widely known in the 1980s; it still belongs more to magazines and conversation than to serious reports.
組成food + -ie, a nickname ending. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits the New York critic Gael Greene with making the word; she used it in 1980.
同家族的字
- foodfoodie is food plus a nickname ending
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
foodienoun/ˈfuːdi/
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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 flashily beautiful as their beautiful women.
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