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

synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome.

Roget 954a: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine etc. 962; hedonist; tragalist^†.    ... show more

Roget 957: gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness etc. adj.; voracity.    epicurism; good living, high living; edacity^†, gulosity^†, crapulence^†; guttling^†, guzzling; pantophagy^†.    good cheer, blow out; feast etc. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine [Fr.].    epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius^†, gastronome; gourmet etc. 954.1, 868.    v.. gormandize, gorge; overgorge^†, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle^†, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp etc. (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.    have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork etc. (appetite) 865.    pamper.    ... show more

Roget 868: fastidiousness etc. adj.; nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise [Fr.], epicurism, omnia suspendens naso [Lat.].    epicure, gourmet.    [Excess of delicacy] prudery.   

Dutch: Epicure, Bourgondiër, gastronome, lekkerbek, lucullus, gastronoom, fijnproever