different between gourmand vs gravy

English

Alternative forms

• gormand

Etymology

From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (“a glutton”, noun), from gormant (“gluttonous”, adjective), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.m?nd/, /????m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????m?nd/, /????.m?nd/

Noun

gourmand (plural gourmands)

1. A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
2. A person who appreciates good food.

Synonyms

• (person given to excess consumption): glutton, trencherman, see also Thesaurus:glutton
• (person who appreciates food): chowhound, gastronaut, gourmet
• (person with a special interest or knowledge of food): foodie

Derived terms

• gourmandise
• gourmandism

Translations

See also

• gourmet

French

Etymology

From Middle French gourmant (“glutton”), originally an adjectival form, from Old French, where it had the sense of trencherman, but of uncertain ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?.m??/
• Homophone: gourmands
• Hyphenation: gour?mand

Adjective

gourmand (feminine singular gourmande, masculine plural gourmands, feminine plural gourmandes)

1. eating a lot
2. (more recently) having a love for good food, demanding of food quality

Noun

gourmand m (plural gourmands, feminine gourmande)

1. a person who eats a lot, or who has refined tastes in food

Usage notes

The French and English usages of this word are false friends. While the English word has evolved to emphasize the excesses of a gourmand, the French word has become more associated with refined tastes in food. See also gourmet, which has considerable overlap with this word.

Descendants

• ? Czech: gurmán
• ? Portuguese: gourmand
• ? Romanian: gurmand

Further reading

• “gourmand” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, where it had the sense of trencherman, but of uncertain ultimate origin

Adjective

gourmand m

1. (Jersey) greedy

Portuguese

Etymology

From French gourmand.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u??m??/

Noun

gourmand m, f (plural gourmands)

1. gourmand (person who appreciates good food)
2. gourmand (person who eats too much)

   Synonym: comilão

Further reading

• “gourmand” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Etymology

From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), from Old French grave, apparently a misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). See also greaves.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?vi/
• Rhymes: -e?vi

Noun

gravy (usually uncountable, plural gravies)

1. (countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
   1. (Britain, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.

   2. (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce

2. (uncountable, Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
3. (uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
   • 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:

     With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.

   • 1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60:

     Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.

   • 1992, Khamm?n Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp

     This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.

   • 2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish ?ISBN, page 158

     Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.

4. (uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
5. (uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.

   The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gravy.

Derived terms

• good gravy
• gravy boat
• gravy train

Descendants

• ? Welsh: grefi

Translations

See also

• sauce
• brown sauce

References

• gravy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Noun

gravy

1. Alternative form of gravey

Spanish

Noun

gravy m (uncountable)

1. gravy