diener

See also: Diener

English

Etymology

From German Diener (“servant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/

Noun

diener (plural dieners)

1. A morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.
   • 2016, Vincent Di Maio, Morgue: A Life in Death, page 55:

     Before dawn every morning, the dieners would array the day's corpses on the tables in the small, unventilated autopsy room, ready for the medical examiners to splay them out under unforgiving, hot lamps that left patches of dark in the corners.

Anagrams

• Edirne, Nereid, denier, nereid, reined

Swedish

Noun

diener

1. indefinite plural of dien

Anagrams

• denier