gourmet

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈɡʊəmeɪ//
United Kingdom//ˈɡɔːmeɪ//
United States//ɡʊɹˈmeɪ//

Fine; of superior quality.

adjective

1
Fine; of superior quality.
We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
[On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!

Etymology

Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.

noun

1
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects.

Forms

plural: gourmets

gots · Has, has got (3rd person singular).gotta · Synonym of have got to, have to gotten · Obtained, acquired.

gourmet · Fine; of superior quality.

govern · To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to…governess · A woman paid to educate children in their own home.government · The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to…

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