Dictionary

mail lady en · NOUN

Etymology

From mail + lady.

Meanings

1. (informal) A female postal worker.
   • "That was close," I quip to the mail lady. 2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10:
   • ...put up the flag for the mail lady. 1994, W. A. Mathieu, The Musical Life:
   • In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox 1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17:
   • But after Miss Shriver passed (she had been Lethe's mail lady for thirty years), Vanessa took her place. Not long after becoming our mail lady, she married Bud Crawford, Carrabelle's city attorney. 2007, Connie May Fowler, Remembering Blue: A Novel:
   • ...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady. 2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia, page 55:
   • The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get. 1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142:
   • The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop. 1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, page 142:

Forms

Antonyms

mailman · postman

Hypernyms

postal worker · letter carrier · mailperson · mail carrier · postperson · postal carrier

Synonyms

mailwoman · postwoman · post lady