- 1
A gourmand is someone who really loves to eat and drink, and often loves to do it in a big way — a long meal, a full plate, another glass. The word can sound a little greedy, and older books sometimes use it almost like glutton, a person who cannot stop. Though actually, many people now say it with a smile: not “this person is bad,” but “this person is serious about food and is not shy about appetite.” It is a rather French, rather word; you will meet it in food writing more than in the school . It is not the same as gourmet. A gourmet is in a grand way — the right sauce, the right wine, a small beautiful plate. A gourmand may also care about good food, but the heart of the word is enjoyment and quantity, not fine judgment. You would not call a small child a gourmand in ordinary talk; you would just say they love eating.
老饕（愛吃、而且常常吃得多；不是「美食家」gourmet）
組成From Middle English gourmaunt, from Old French gormant, a glutton — someone who eats too much. Where that French word itself came from is not known.
同家族的字
- gourmandizethe verb from the same French family: to eat a lot, greedily
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
gourmandnoun/ˈɡʊə.mənd/
- 1
A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
- I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
- 2
A person who appreciates good food.
- The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。