gourmet

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Fine; of superior quality.

   We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

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.