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barista-ing

barista-ing is the present participle and gerund of barista.

Meaning of barista

Verb

barista (third-person singular simple present baristas, present participle barista-ing or (uncommon) baristaing, simple past and past participle baristaed or barista'd)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a barista.
    • 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...2007, Kate Hardy [pseudonym; Pamela Brooks], In Bed with Her Italian Boss, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 24

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Questions about barista-ing

What is barista-ing the present participle and gerund of?
Barista-ing is the present participle and gerund of barista.

Words near barista-ing in the dictionary

  1. barish
  2. Barishal
  3. Barishes
  4. barista
  5. barista'd
  6. barista-ing
  7. baristaed
  8. baristaing
  9. baristas
  10. baristi
  11. baristo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barista-ing (page history and authors); barista (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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