Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cocktailing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cock-tail-ing
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Work as a cocktail waitress.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Like housekeeping, cocktailing is at heart hard labor. Genette Louis, a longtime cocktail waitress who was completing a graduate thesis on postmodern theory at the time we interviewed her, had worked in Oregon in forestry and trucking […]"

Etymology

From cocktail + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cocktail

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does cocktailing mean?: Work as a cocktail waitress.
Where does cocktailing come from?: From cocktail + -ing.

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