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/ˈɡʊə.mənd/ · noun
A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater..
I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
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.
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 and qingzhen 清真).
Use gourmand when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gourmand means A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater..
Common synonyms include glutton, trencherman, chowhound, gastronaut.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
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