toastmaker

noun — 2 senses

toastmaker

noun

Etymology From toast + maker.

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...1867, Archie's ambition:
  • The new Dormeyer Toastmaker is the modern way to make toast — with that good "old-fashioned" flavor.1950 October 23, LIFE:
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.1896, The American magazine:

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