waitron

n. 1。侍者, 服务员(waiter或waitress与patron之缩合, 可指男性或女性)

词形变化

waitrons 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A waiter or waitress.

    罕用
  2. 1.

    A robotic or mechanical waiter.

    过时 媒体

词源

Coined as a gender-neutral substitute for waiter and waitress, this is one of the few words with the gender-neutral suffix -ron to have seen much use, probably re-inforced by rhyming with patron. (Some references instead analyse it as using the same "machinelike" suffix -tron as waitron (“mechanical waiter”), but more likely it uses -ron like laundron and like waiter and waitress use -er/-ress not *-ter/*-tress.)

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