Excessively devoted to eating, food, or culinary pleasure; treating fine food with reverence or worship.
From gastro- (stomach) + -latrous (worshipping, from Greek latreia). This playful adjective humorously describes the obsessive attention some people give to food culture.
This word is a perfect example of how English lets us stack prefixes and suffixes to create hilariously specific concepts—it's both funny and accurate for describing serious food lovers!
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