gourmandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• gormand

語源

From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (“a glutton”, noun), from gormant (“gluttonous”, adjective), of uncertain origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊə.mənd/, /ˈɡʊʁmɑ̃/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɡɔɹˈmɑnd/, /ˈɡʊɹ.mɑnd/
  • 韻: (米国発音) -ɑnd

名詞

gourmand (複数形 gourmands)

1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
   • 1603 (first performance; published 1605)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Seianus his Fall. A Tragœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, page 365:

     I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 5:

     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.
   • 2000, Wilkinson, Endymion, “Agriculture, Food, and the Environment”, in Chinese History: A New Manual‎^[1], Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 636:

     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 かつ qingzhen 清真).

同意語

• (person given to excess consumption): glutton, trencherman, see also Thesaurus:glutton
• (person who appreciates food): chowhound, gastronaut, gourmet
• (person with a special interest または knowledge of food): foodie

派生語

• gourmandise
• gourmandism

参考

• gourmet