gourmettish

comparative more gourmettish · superlative most gourmettish

1. alternativeAlternative form of gourmetish.

   Their [frogs’] hind legs are tidbits for epicures, even to giving an adjectival sobriquet to a gourmettish nation.

   1908 June 28, “Some Odd Things in Nature: The Capacity of a Frog”, in The Daily Colonist, volume C, number 16, Victoria, B.C., page 23, column 2

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   A girl to keep a gourmettish eye on, we should say, for if she is a specialist in cherry pie baking it is likely she can do a pretty good job of other kinds of cooking, too.

   1940 February 24, Wilbur E. Sutton, “Comment: In Our Own Home Town”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume XLVII, number 60, Muncie, Ind., page 1, column 1

   Some of these were gourmettish needs pressed on Isidor by Mary-Ann but some errands come rattling out of the subconscious—you don’t really want to know what has given rise to them.

   2003, Todd McEwen, “Thanksgiving Day”, in Who Sleeps with Katz, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, page 132