school dinner lady
noun1
UK A woman employed to prepare, serve or supervise school dinners.
- 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:
- 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: