dinner lady en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Ellipsis of school dinner lady.
Meanings
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(UK, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.
Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.
2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dinner ladies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
school dinner lady · lunch lady
Translations (3)
pt merendeira (woman employed to serve food) · cmn 食堂阿姨 (woman employed to serve food) · sv mattant (woman employed to serve food)