waitron

Meanings

Plural: waitrons

Noun

A waiter or waitress.
A robotic or mechanical waiter.

Origin / 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 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.)

Synonyms

server, waitperson, waitstaff

Scrabble Score: 10

waitron is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
waitron is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
waitron is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

waitron is a valid Words With Friends word