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toastmaker

noun

Etymology

From toast + maker.

  1. inherited from maker
  2. compounded as toastmaker — “toast + maker”

Definitions

  1. A person or machine that makes toast (cooked bread).

    • It was quite an office she had taken to herself, that of toastmaker to the family, and she made quite a serious business of it. First, there was to be mamma's toast, that was to be very thin and crisp...
    • The new Dormeyer Toastmaker is the modern way to make toast — with that good "old-fashioned" flavor.

  2. A toastmaster, one who proposes toasts at a formal occasion.

    • As to the host — it is he who is toastmaker on such a gala occasion as I describe.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA