busgirl

or bus girl

[ buhs-gurl ]

noun

1. a girl or woman who works as a waiter's helper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of busgirl¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; bus(boy) + girl

Example Sentences

I helped him build the deck every day after school, but my spring weekends changed because, since I was fourteen, my father filled out my working papers and made me get my first job, at Mika’s Diner as a busgirl.

From Literature

Fifteen years ago, Luz Arrendondo started as a busgirl.

From Washington Times

The counterman waved distractedly in the manner of a harried restaurateur dealing with his regulars, and said something in Korean to the busgirl, who along with the Vietnamese chef and the Congolese sous chef, lent the joint a transworld sensibility that made it a favorite among the painfully global darlings of O'Malley House.

From Project Gutenberg

To his everlasting surprise, the counterman had vigorously defended the system, saying that he liked the PoS data-entry system just fine, but that the stack of torn-off paper stubs from the busgirl's receipt book was a good visualization tool, letting him eyeball the customer volume from hour to hour by checking the spike beside the till, and the rubberbanded stacks of yellowing paper lining his cellar's shelves gave him a wonderfully physical evidence of the growing success of his little eatery.

From Project Gutenberg