dishwasher
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- noun
- /ˈdɪʃˌwɔːʃər/
:
lavaplatos
- My brother started working as a dishwasher in a busy restaurant to earn some extra money.
Examples
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The first job I had was as a dishwasher in a country club restaurant.
Academic text (2016) -
The winning goal was headed home by Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian living in New York City who made his living as a dishwasher.
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Following the Soviet invasion, she had been reduced to a hotel dishwasher.
Academic text (1991) -
Paul had only one friend, a tubby middle-aged dishwasher named Murmelstein.
Fiction book (1993) -
Later, he rose to canteen dishwasher, scraping leftovers from the plates to help feed his mother and two younger brothers.
Academic text (2010) -
Many of the household heads took jobs as dishwashers, barbers, janitors, and motel housekeepers.
Blog text (16) -
It's run by an old Greek immigrant, his wife, and their 18-year-old grandson who acts as dishwasher, busboy, and interpreter.
Fiction book (1998) -
After finishing her shift, the dishwasher cleaned all the plates and utensils used during service.
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The restaurant hired a new dishwasher to help with the large volume of dishes after dinner.
Synonyms
A person who washes dishes after a meal
A person who always washes the dishes at parties or family meals as a joke
Compounds
- Informal
A silly phrase people use to say something is confusing or absurd
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dishwasher is simply the two words dish and washer put together; it names a person who 'washes' dishes in a kitchen, so a dishwasher is literally 'one who washes dishes'.