foodie means A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
foodie is pronounced /ˈfuːdi/.
Etymology
From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.
noun
- A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.“We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.”