What's the difference between footy and gourmet?

Footy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
  • (a.) Poor; mean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you are not booing for racist grounds, stop, because it never used to be part of your day at the footy.
  • (2) And it continues at footy games, BBQs, cricket matches, school, college, university, at work, the pub; we are all in a position to make a positive influence when we see unacceptable behaviour or attitudes,” he said.
  • (3) Australia to change law to allow strikes on more Isis combatants Read more “People need to be assured that our agencies have the capability to protect us and we take appropriate measures to make sure any footy final or any place where a lot of people are gathering do have appropriate protections,” he told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
  • (4) Footy news site bold.dk managed to get a hold of the Greek’s agent, who in disbelief asked if this was supposed to be a joke: “Is this a joke?
  • (5) On Wednesday, the publisher of the Fifa series of footie sims announced that it had extended its “official sports technology” partnership with the Premiership until 2019.
  • (6) "It is a remarkable but incontrovertible matter of historical fact that - in my thirty years or so of watching international footie tournaments - no team I have supported has EVER won a penalty shoot-out," writes Richard Hands of Mali, who I'm guessing isn't rooting for Uruguay to make it three.
  • (7) Strachan told BBC Radio 5 live: "People have problems in footy where you have an indication that something is wrong, but this one is right out of the blue.
  • (8) We all have a circle of influence around us, whether it’s a whole organisation, the local footy club, or simply the family around the dinner table.
  • (9) Which makes it all very embarrassing for Sky, which has spent a fortune trying to move away from its footie fan, taxi-driver image in the past few years.
  • (10) I would say there’s definitely a racist element to it,” Buckley told Fox Footy.
  • (11) While Logan might represent a polar extreme of full-blown footie Anglophilia, scores of other American fans fervently support EPL teams without committing to such dramatic extremes.
  • (12) While the stereotype is that gay men can’t and don’t play footy, the opposite perception is that only lesbians play sport.
  • (13) Take Si Evans for example: Si Evans (@siphev) @KidWeil RSL looking good...first time in 26 years of watching footy I've missed a goal.
  • (14) Shorten said Dutton’s defence that the joke was made as part of a private conversation were “not good enough,” adding, “he’s a minister, he’s a cabinet minister, he’s not some bloke on the outer at the footy, he’s a cabinet minister of the Australian government”.
  • (15) The Palmer United party senator said on Tuesday that Abbott and Shorten were acting like “hormone-affected schoolboys trying to out-macho each other on the footy field”.
  • (16) Speaking to Fox Footy post-match Goodes denied there was anything untoward going on between himself and the Blues’ supporter group.
  • (17) Prior’s team has gone to the usual lengths to ensure that you really feel part of the summer’s footy frenzy, with the game packing in all 203 teams from the qualifying stages, made up of 7,469 players – all of whom have their names in the game.
  • (18) The word from Gamescom is that Konami’s series is heading toward a new zenith, not just for the faithful acolytes but for footie simulation fans in general.
  • (19) I don’t think it is anything to do with the way he plays his footy.” I can tell you how Adam Goodes feels.
  • (20) It’s a bit of a shock, he’s a champion of this footy club,” said Swans defender Rhyce Shaw, who had previously announced he was retiring at the end of the season.

Gourmet


Definition:

  • (n.) A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
  • (2) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
  • (3) Fastforward to 2005, and the Gate Gourmet workforce – again, mostly female and Asian – were dismissed after assembling in the canteen to question the company's employment policies and then refusing to go back to work.
  • (4) 12-24 University Avenue (028-9032 6589, commongrounds.co.uk ) Rocket & Relish Rocket and Relish Chef-owner Chris Boyd started out selling gourmet burgers at festivals from a converted Airstream caravan.
  • (5) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
  • (6) The Wellspring Collective – they're good, they've dropped their prices down to compete with other shops, like Ganja Gourmet , right here.
  • (7) Food shortages are not immediately apparent in upscale supermarkets such as Gourmet in Zamalek, an affluent district in central Cairo, but the rise in prices of imported goods are plain to see.
  • (8) When I interviewed gourmet coffee guru Gwilym Davies three years ago, shortly before he took the World Barista Championship crown in the US, he told me that we were in the third wave of coffee.
  • (9) I eat dinner with my wife; she is a gourmet cook and her food beats most of the best restaurants in New York.
  • (10) "I actually wanted to buck the trend and move to Soho, but then I realised the rent's cheaper here," says Simon Prockter, who arrived in January to set up HouseBites , a gourmet takeaway service for people who want a quick, cheap meal cooked and hand-delivered by local chefs.
  • (11) EU companies catch sharks in the Atlantic, Indian, Mediterranean, and Pacific oceans, and are the largest exporter of shark fins to Hong Kong and mainland China where they are used for a gourmet soup.
  • (12) Inside it's all old-world charm, with antiques scattered around, log fires, dark panelling, a billiards room, two pianos, a bar with 40 single malts and gourmet dinners by candlelight.
  • (13) I now have both, but give me Morrisons supermarket over a gourmet deli any day.
  • (14) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
  • (15) "Foodie" has now pretty much everywhere replaced "gourmet", perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination – even though those qualities are rampant among the "foodies" themselves.
  • (16) First, it became a “gourmet island”, home to Kadeau , the celebrated restaurant of the local Michelin-starred chef Rasmus Kofoed.
  • (17) Everyone wants a slice of the pie, selling plants and resin, marijuana-laced gourmet food, pipes, growing equipment, cultivation courses, balms, you name it.
  • (18) She declined to provide details but said the events will be a spin on a recent contest between two friends to make a gourmet dish out of a Big Mac meal.
  • (19) • khaomangai.com Grilled Cheese Grill I've never met a grilled cheese sandwich I didn't like, but this lot take it into food-geek territory: everything from the simple "taste of your childhood", to elaborate constructions featuring bespoke breads and gourmet cheeses.
  • (20) Artisan bakers are also seeing an upsurge in demand for "gourmet bread": sourdough at £4 a loaf and others such as Borodinsky (made with Russian rye).

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