WAYS OF EATING

Eat: He was too ill to eat Chew: ~sth (up) work or grind between the teeth .Chew your food well before you swallow it. Consume: (fml) to eat and drink. We need to consume food and water to survive. Crop: (of and animal) bite the tops off and eat (grass, plants, etc) Sheep had cropped the grass. Dig in / Fall to: (infml) (phr vb) eat hungrily or enthusiastically. The food is ready, so dig in! Digest /daIdzest/ change (food) in the stomach and bowels so that it can be used by the body. Fish is easy to digest when you are ill. Feed: (on sth) give food to (a person or an animal) She has a large family to feed. Gnaw: ~(at) sth. Bite sth hard continually until it is worn away. The dog gnawed at the bone. Have: (infml) We have lunch at twelve oclock everyday . Lick: Pass the tongue over (sth/sb) Children like licking ice creams . Nourish /nArI / keep (a person, an animal or plant) alive and well with food. Most plants are nourished by water drawn up through their roots. Subsist on: to stay alive by eating. He subsisted mainly on vegetables. Swallow: To cause or allow (esp. Food or drink) to go down the throat. Chew your food properly before swallowing. Tuck in /tAk In/ (infml) to eat eagerly and with enjoyment. He tucked into the ham hungrily Dine: /daIn / to have a meal with other people, often a formal or official meal, esp. In the evening We dined on smoked salmon. Eat /eat out: to eat a meal in a restaurant, etc rather than at home.Im too tired to cook tonight; shall we eat out? Grab Sth./ Grab a bite to eat: to eat something quickly, a cocky because you are hungry. Why dont we grab something before going to the cinema? Have a snak: eat something between or instead of main meals. Usually I only have a snack for lunch. Have sth. To eat: To eat something such a small meal. We stopped in the middle of the way to have something to eat. Snack / snack on sth: small amounts of food fairly regularly throughout the day. I prefer to snack when Im travelling rather than have a full meal. SUP / sAp / drink something in small amounts, eat supper. They sat supping their beer. Wine and dine: entertain (sb) or be entertained with food and drink, esp lavishly. Our hosts wined and dined us very well. Consume: (fml) to eat and drink in large amounts. He consumes a lot of bread with every meal. Cram down / krm / stuff with food. George crammed down an apple while he was studying. Gorge: eat greedily; fill ( tuck in) . She always gorges on cream- cakes Graze / greIz / snack continuously small portions and samples of food. I dont sit down to proper meals, I just graze. (picotear) Guzzle: eat or drink sth greedily .The children guzzled down all the cake. Make a pig of yourself: eat or drink too much, very rude. Dont make a pig of yourself, you have eaten enough. Overeat: eat more than one needs or more than is healthy. I overate at the party last night and got violent indigestion. Pig out /pork out: to eat more than is healthy or necessary. Every Saturday we pig out and ate pasta. Stuff yourself/ Gorge yourself - yourself with/ Gorge yourself with : (infml) to eat so much food that you cannot eat anything else.The boys used to stuff themselves after the football match. Bolt /boult/ swallow food quickly. Dont bolt your food youll get indigestion! Dispatch: finish (a job, meal, etc) quickly. The children dispatched the sandwiches in ten minutes. Gobble / Gobble down: eat something fast, noisily and greedily (leaving nothing behind) Eat slowly and dont gobble. Wolf down: (infml) eat something quickly and greedily. I thought there would be some biscuits left but they wolfed the lot. Chomp: (infml) chew or bite down hard and noisily. She sat happily chomping her breakfast Crunch: to noisily eat something hard .Jill was reading the newspaper, crunching a raw carrot as she read. Munch: to eat something noisily, especially for a long time. Mark was slowly munching his last piece of cake.

Slurp /sl3:p/ to drink or eat noisily.I wish you wouldnt slurp your soup like that. Devour /dIvaua / to eat all something quickly because you are very hungry. After the tennis match the boys devoured the sandwiches in seconds Scoff: (infml) to eat something quickly and eagerly, and especially to finish it all I left three pies in the fridge and someones scoffed the lot! Big eater: someone who usually eats a lot of food Dont give me such a large portion, Im not a big eater Gourmet /guamei/ someone who knows a lot about food and drink and likes good quality food and drink .They are real gourmets and buy only the best cuts of meat. Like your food: an informal expression meaning to enjoy food and to usually eat a lot (vb phrase not in progressive). Give him a big plate of spaghetti, he likes his food. Nibble: to eat small pieces of food by taking small bites Everyone stood around, drinking cocktails and nibbling potato chips. Hardly touch your food/dinner/meal etc: to eat almost none of your dinner, meal etc (vb phrase) .Are you feeling okay? Youve hardly touched your dinner . Be a fussy / picky eater : to refuse to eat particular types of food and only eat food that you especially like (vb phrase). Stans such a picky eater its impossible to know what to cook for him. Play /toy with your food: to use your fork, spoon etc to move the food around your plate instead of eating it (vb phrase) Dont play with your food. If you dont want it, leave it Diet: Ive been dieting for two months and Ive lost 6 kilos Go on a diet: to decide to follow an eating plan that controls the type and amount of food that you eat so that you lose weight (vb phrase) She went on a diet four weeks ago but she still looks fat. Fast / go on a fast: to eat little or no food for a fixed period of time, especially for religious reasons. He lived alone for several years, praying and fasting. Fast: a period of time when a person eats little or no food, especially for religious reasons. The fast lasts for three days so I try not to think about food Refuse food: to not eat any of the food that has been offered to you Reporters noticed that the princess started refusing food at official dinners . Starve yourself: to refuse to eat, with the result that you make yourself ill or even die (vb phrase)Gina had an argument with her mother and was determined to get revenge by starving herself Go on a hunger strike: if someone goes on hunger strike, they refuse to eat for days or weeks in order to protest about something or bring public attention to a political matter (vb phrase) More than 300 prisoners went on hunger strike in February in protest against the living conditions On a n empty stomach: if you do something on an empty stomach, you do it when you have not eaten recently (adv phrase)If you drink on an empty stomach you are bound to get drunk very quickly.

WORDS FOR DESCRIBING SOMETHING THAT CAN BE EATEN

Edible / edible /food, plants and animals that are edible are suitable for people to eat and will not cause illness or death . Are these mushrooms edible? Oh yes, and they are delicious! Fresh: (usually of food) recently produced or picked and not frozen, dried or preserved in tins or cans: Is this milk fresh? Fresh bread Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Vegetables fresh from the garden

WORDS FOR DESCRIBING SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE EATEN

Inedible / InedIbl / food, plants, and animals that are inedible cannot be eaten (adj) Only the tail and fins can be eaten. The rest is totally inedible. Unfit for human comsuption : an expression used especially in official contexts meaning not suitable for people to eat (adj phrase) Most of this meat is so old it is unfit for human consumption Past its sell-by date

Words for describing food taste

Spicy: (of food) having a strong taste because spices have been used to flavour it: Spicy chicken wings Bitter (of food, etc) having a strong, unpleasant taste; not sweet: Black coffee leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Bland: not having a strong or interesting taste: A rather bland diet of soup, fish and bread. Creamy:

Crisp: (of food) (also crispy) pleasantly hard and dry: Bake until the pastry is golden and crisp. 2 (of fruit and vegetables) (also crispy) firm and fresh: A crisp apple / lettuce Crunchy: (approving) (especially of food) firm and crisp and making a sharp sound when you bite or crush it: A crunchy salad Mild: (of a flavour) not strong, spicy or bitter: A mild curry Mild cheese (opp) HOT Salty: containing or tasting of salt Savory: Having a taste that is salty not sweet: Savoury dishes / snacks. 2 Having a pleasant taste or smell: A savoury smell from the kitchen (opp)Unsavoury Sickly: That makes you feel sick, especially because it is too sweet or full of false emotion: A sickly sweet smell. Sour: Having a bitter taste like the taste of a lemon or of fruit that is not ripe: Sour apples A sour flavour. (opp) Sweet 2 (especially of milk) having an unpleasant taste or smell because it is not fresh: To turn / go sour Sour milk / cream A sour smell. Stodgy: (of food) heavy and making you feel very full: Stodgy puddings. Tasteless: Having little or no flavour: Tasteless soup

Words for describing how much food has been cooked

Raw: not cooed: Raw meat These fish are often eaten raw. Uncooked: Undercooked : Cooked for too long Overcooked: Cooked for too long

more words to describe state of food

Off: no longer fresh enough to eat or drink: This fish has gone off. The milk smells off. Its off. Ripe /raIp/ 1 (of fruit or crops) fully grown and ready to be eaten: Pick the tomatoes before they get too ripe. (OPP) Unripe 2 (of cheese or wine) having a flavour that has fully developed (SYN) Mature 3 (of a smell) strong and unpleasant Rotten : (of food, wood, etc.) that has decayed and cannot be eaten or used: The smell of rotten vegetables The fruit is starting to go rotten. full of lumps; covered in lumps: lumpy sauce a lumpy mattress rotten floorboards. Tough /tAf/ difficult to cut or chew (OPP) Tender Stale /steil/ (of food, especially bread and cake) no longer fresh and therefore unpleasant to eat. Lumpy /lAmpI/ full of lumps; covered in lumps: Lumpy sauce. Bony : (of fish) full of small bones.

Stomach Problems Read the text below, paying close attention to the words in red. Tia Billi Tia Billi Dude! I'm really hungry. Hook me up with another slice of pizza! I thought after your trip to India, you thought food was bogus. Other foods, yes. But pizza is totally cool! But this is our third pizza. I've only eaten one slice. I think you are overdoing it. Tia I feel bad vibes coming from you, dude. Billi I think you are probably feeling your stomach!

Hook me up with Overdoing it Bad vibes

Give me. Doing something too much; excessively. Negative emotions.