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waitress

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈweɪ.tɹɪs//

A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.

noun

  1. 1

    A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.

    a waitress in a cocktail bar.

    It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.

    The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

    I ask everybody… A waitress, flight attendant… …someone I’m shitting next to on the plane… “You know what my biggest hobby is?” Puking.

Etymology

Etymology tree English waiter Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English waitress From waiter + -ess.

verb

  1. 1

    To work as a waitress.

    But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.

    The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

Forms

plural
waitresses
past tense
waitressed
past participle
waitressed
present participle
waitressing
third person singular
waitresses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).