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baristo

/bəˈɹɪstəʊ/

baristo noun: a specifically male barista.

Noun

baristo (plural baristi or baristos)

  1. (hypercorrect, nonstandard) A specifically male barista.
    • Starbucks also faces slumping morale and employee burnout among its store managers and its once-cheery army of baristos.2002, Business week, McGraw-Hill, Inc, page 102
    • On the other side of me a table holds several tureens of brewed coffee; additionally, a small man in a white coat stands beside a cappuccino maker. He is the official baristo of this White House coffee.2003, Philip Edward Baruth, The X President: a novel, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 65, →ISBN

Examples of baristo in a sentence

  • I walk over to Feet’s Coffee & Tea on Vine Street and tell the young #baristo, “My daughter started preschool today.” He gives me a coffee on the house.2006, Rachel Sarah, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 111...
  • At the door, the baristo from Starbucks peeked in.2008, Jennifer Stevenson, The Velvet Chair, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71, →ISBN:

Forms of baristo

pluralbaristi
pluralbaristos

Origin of baristo

Pseudo-Italianism, derived from barista (“bartender”), the -a having been interpreted as the Italian feminine singular ending -a, and then substituted with the masculine singular ending -o to specify a masculine, rather than feminine, agent noun.

Questions about baristo

What does baristo mean?
Baristo means a specifically male barista.
How do you use baristo in a sentence?
I walk over to Feet’s Coffee & Tea on Vine Street and tell the young #baristo, “My daughter started preschool today.” He gives me a coffee on the house.
What part of speech is baristo?
Baristo is a noun.
How do you pronounce baristo?
Baristo is pronounced /bəˈɹɪstəʊ/.
What is the plural of baristo?
The plural of baristo is baristi.

Words near baristo in the dictionary

  1. barista-ing
  2. baristaed
  3. baristaing
  4. baristas
  5. baristi
  6. baristo
  7. baristos
  8. Barit-Pandan
  9. barite
  10. baritenor
  11. barites

Source and license

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