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waitressing

[wey-truh-sing]

wait·ress·ing

[wey-truh-sing]
noun
the occupation of a waitress.

Origin:
1935–40; waitress + -ing1

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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wait·ress

[wey-tris]
noun
1.
a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
verb (used without object)
2.
to work or serve as a waitress: She waitressed in a restaurant to help pay her way through college.

Origin:
1580–90; wait(e)r + -ess


See -ess, -person.

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