toastmaker
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]toastmaker (plural toastmakers)
- A person or machine that makes toast (cooked bread).
- 1867, Archie's ambition:
- 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...
- 1950 October 23, LIFE:
- The new Dormeyer Toastmaker is the modern way to make toast — with that good "old-fashioned" flavor.
- A toastmaster, one who proposes toasts at a formal occasion.
- 1896, The American magazine:
- As to the host — it is he who is toastmaker on such a gala occasion as I describe.