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Definition of waitron

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noun

  1. (nonstandard, rare)A waiter or waitress.
    “With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.”
    “Table Service is the combined interaction between the guest and the waitron whilst seated at a table in the establishment's restaurant.”
    “If your wine waitron smells the cork, s/he's probably a beginner at this game because you can tell absolutely nothing by smelling the cork.”
    “Come back here with your cut glass, posh English accent and waitrons everywhere will melt at your feet.”
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noun

  1. (nonstandard, rare)A waiter or waitress.
    “With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.”
    “Table Service is the combined interaction between the guest and the waitron whilst seated at a table in the establishment's restaurant.”
    “If your wine waitron smells the cork, s/he's probably a beginner at this game because you can tell absolutely nothing by smelling the cork.”
    “Come back here with your cut glass, posh English accent and waitrons everywhere will melt at your feet.”
  2. (dated)A robotic or mechanical waiter.

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Etymology

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…

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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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