"foodista" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: foodistas [plural]
Etymology: food + -ista Etymology templates: {{af|en|food|-ista}} food + -ista Head templates: {{en-noun}} foodista (plural foodistas)
  1. (rare) A foodie; a gourmet. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-foodista-en-noun-6c6rWj2o Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ista

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016, Walter Levy, “picnic”, in Catherine Donnelly, editor, The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, page 568",
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