FOOD – NOUNS – PERSON
NOUNS – PERSON
► CARBOHOLIC a person who selects food made from grains or starchy vegetables over protein or fat → 1973
► FOODIE ► FOODY a person who is greatly (even excessively) interested in the preparation and consumption of good food → 1982 UK colloq.
► GASTROPHILE one who loves his stomach, or good eating; one who loves good food → 1820
► GREASY a seller of fast or takeaway food → 1960s sl.
► MEAT-MIDDER the food-provider or mistress of a house, one who serves out food → 1899 Sc.
► NOSHER a person with a large appetite; someone with a love of food → Brit. sl.
► OMNIVORE a person or animal that eats all kinds of food → 1890
► OPSOMANIAC one having a morbid longing for dainties or for some particular food → 1842
► PINCH-COMMONS one who stints the supply of food for himself or others; a parsimonious or stingy person; a miser, a niggard → 1822
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