Toastmaker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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..."

  2. 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."

Example

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"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..."

Etymology

From toast + maker.

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