Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A waiter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy; a waiter; especially, as used in English speech, a waiter at a public table.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boy; fellow; esp., a serving boy or man; a waiter; -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.
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- noun A
waiter (especially at a Frenchrestaurant ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French garçun, servant, accusative of gars, boy, soldier, probably of Germanic origin.]
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From the French garçon (1788), from Old French garçun ("servant", oblique case of gars), from Frankish *warkjon, *wrakjon (“servant, boy”, oblique case of *warkjo, *wrakjo), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko ("exile, warrior, hero") (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio ("a banished person, exile, stranger"), Old English wrecca ("a wretch, stranger, exile"), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr ("man, warrior, hero"). More at wretch, wreak.
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