Gourmet vs Glutton - What's the difference?
gourmet | glutton |
(of food) fine
A connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller):
* 1597 , i 3 :
One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
(figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
* 1705 , George Granville, The British Enchanters :
* :
* 1878 , :
The wolverine, Gulo gulo , of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
(archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
*(and other bibliographic detailes), (Lovelace)
* 1915 , Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor :
(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
* (and other bibliographic detailes), (Drayton)
* 1598 —
As adjectives the difference between gourmet and glutton
is that gourmet is fine while glutton is gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.As nouns the difference between gourmet and glutton
is that gourmet is a connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most while glutton is one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.As a verb glutton is
to glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.gourmet
English
(wikipedia gourmet)Adjective
(-)- Gourmet coffee is just like regular coffee, only better.
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
Usage notes
Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as (artisanal) (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.Coordinate terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality.Synonyms
* foodieSee also
* gourmand * haute cuisine ----glutton
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
- So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?
Noun
(en noun)- Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
- "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
- Hope is a subtle Glutton / He feeds upon the Fair
- "A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton ."
Synonyms
* (voracious eater) seeSee also
* glutton for punishmentVerb
(en verb)- Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.
- In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'
- Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
- Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.