barista

plural baristas · plural baristi

1. A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.

   "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

   2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70

present singular third person baristas · participle present barista-ing · participle present uncommon baristaing · participle past baristaed · past baristaed · participle past barista'd · past barista'd

1. intransitiveTo work as a barista.

   Barista Boy grins and goes back to barista-ing.

   2015, Jo Knowles, Read Between the Lines, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 57

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   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 for another half-hour lesson on baristaing, tonight? […] ‘It’s advanced baristaing—an extra,’ he admitted.

   2007, Kate Hardy [pseudonym; Pamela Brooks], In Bed with Her Italian Boss, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 24

   Nevertheless, we’ll both be done with barista-ing soon.

   2009, Laura Schaefer, The Teashop Girls, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 220

   We hadn’t exchanged a word since our stupid tiff at TSB—we’d just baristaed side by side in silence, which isn’t easy when your workspace is the size of a broom closet.

   2009, Jody Gehrman, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Dial Books, →ISBN

   If pure chance guided me to glory in the heady world of competitive barista-ing, the rewards came to be measured in frustration.

   2011, Andrew Wear, “The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic”, in Scott F. Parker, Michael W. Austin, editors, Coffee – Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 163

   But it was crappy of me to steal instead of bartending or barista-ing or temping or something.

   2013, K.W. Taylor, “Doomed”, in Sarah Hans, editor, Sidekicks!, Alliteration Ink, →ISBN, page 170