Crossword clues for foodie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gourmet," 1982, from food + -ie.
Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
WordNet
n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean]
Wikipedia
A foodie is a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food and alcoholic beverages. A foodie seeks new food experiences as a hobby rather than simply eating out of convenience or hunger.
Usage examples of "foodie".
She went to one of the new places hidden among the foodie streeIs in Temple Bar for a snack.
Not only had most of the summer vacationers gone home, but civic-awareness groups and enthusiastic foodies were cooking up a savory kettle of stew called the Great Food Explo.
In P-town in particular, there were not, as there are today, any star chefs-school-trained, name-on-the-jacket characters whose names and utterances were tossed around by foodies, photos swapped like baseball cards.
The restaurant and its five-star CIA5-trained chef had recently been anointed by Gotham's reigning foodies, and as a result, even on this raw Saturday night there were people lined up halfway down the block waiting for tables.