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school dinner lady en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK) A woman employed to prepare, serve or supervise school dinners.
    • Jill Bennett recreates her superb characterisation of a school-dinners’ lady with an appetite more for a bit of roly-poly than jam. [1986 June 27, The London Standard, page 21:
    • The action is in support of schooldinner ladies who have been told by the county council that their holiday pay is being stopped. [1982 May 25, “Pupils may be sent home”, in Herald Express, page 2:

Forms

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school dinner ladies Number=Plur lexicographic
school-dinner lady alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

lunch lady · dinner lady