diener

From German Diener (“servant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/

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.

• Edirne, Nereid, denier, nereid, reined

diener

1. indefinite plural of dien

• denier