gourmettish

English

Adjective

gourmettish (comparative more gourmettish, superlative most gourmettish)

1. Alternative form of gourmetish.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.