barista
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar (from English bar) + -ista (“-ist”); compare barman.
Inflected forms:
form: baristas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baristi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baristas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barista-ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baristaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: baristaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baristaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: barista'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barista'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.
pos: noun
examples: "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
gloss: To work as a barista.
pos: verb
examples: I helped out in the business while I was at school—we all did, whether it was washing up or baristaing or clearing the tables for Dad and washing them down when the shop closed—but this one night I was meant to be working a late shift when I had a chance to play in a concert. […] Are you still OK for another half-hour lesson on baristaing, tonight? […] ‘It’s advanced baristaing—an extra,’ he admitted.
Nevertheless, we’ll both be done with barista-ing soon.
We hadn’t exchanged a word since our stupid tiff at TSB—we’d just baristaed side by side in silence, which isn’t easy when your workspace is the size of a broom closet.
If pure chance guided me to glory in the heady world of competitive barista-ing, the rewards came to be measured in frustration.
But it was crappy of me to steal instead of bartending or barista-ing or temping or something.
Barista Boy grins and goes back to barista-ing.
I nodded to Mary, where she was working the frothing machine like she’d been barista-ing for much longer than a month.
When she’s not barista-ing, she’s writing scripts for murder mystery dinner events.
“How was barista-ing?” “Same as always. A few more burns, a few more tips.”
Somewhere right now, behind the counter at a McDonald’s or delivering pizza for Domino’s or barista-ing at Starbucks, there may be a guy with a gaggle of fantastic ideas for screenplays, Broadway shows, computer software, or, yeah, even healthcare!
Because I can’t fight crime every day, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday doing what I get paid for: barista-ing.
Actually I hear nothing but orders, shouts of / disembodied names / disembodied people / Barista-ing, hard on the legs
It’s easy—I turn out to be a sort of savant at barista-ing. […] Between customers I instruct her in the fine art of barista-ing.
Along the halls, stories were muttered of graduates turned down from barista-ing, pool attending, dishwashing.
But after X times of harassing him, he’d caved and admitted he only got 11 pages in before bowing out. This right after I’d finished trying to walk across country. Failing to. Back home barista-ing. Renting a room out of my high school home.
My first child was three by that time and I’d given up acting (okay, fine … barista-ing) to become a housewife and mother.
Raisa is long gone baristaing to the early workers of Spitalfields by the time Amon Brightbourne wakes from white sleep.
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