mail lady
nounEtymology From mail + lady.
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Informal A female postal worker.
- 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:
4 more examples
- ...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 mailbox1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17:
- ...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:
- "That was close," I quip to the mail lady.2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10:
- Hypernyms
- mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, postal worker, mailperson, postperson