noun General Slang

plongeur

· noun · kitchen

Dishwasher in a professional kitchen (French).

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French for 'diver' — the dishwasher, bottom rung of the brigade. Orwell immortalised the role in 'Down and Out in Paris and London': sixteen-hour shifts, scalding water, no glory. The job that holds the whole kitchen up.

“We're a plongeur down tonight — someone's gonna have to jump in the pit between courses.”
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plongeur In A Sentence

We're a plongeur down tonight — someone's gonna have to jump in the pit between courses.

Origin & Usage

French, literally 'diver'. Popularised in English by George Orwell's 'Down and Out in Paris and London' (1933).

Variants plongeurs
Tags #kitchen#boh#french#brigade

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