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DUMBWAITER
Definition of DUMBWAITER
noun
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
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Other senses
DUMBWAITER carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A small elevator used to convey food or other goods from one floor of a building to another.
noun
A portable serving stand or table.
noun
A small lift / elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
noun
A portable table used for serving.
Where it comes from
From dumb (“unable to speak”) + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DUMBWAITER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DUMBWAITER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 116 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DUMBWAITER starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABDEIMRTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found DUMBWAITER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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