dinner lady
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dinner lady
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Ellipsis of school dinner lady.
noun dinner ladies
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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.
Similar: lunch lady, school dinner lady
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noun woman employed to serve food
| 中文 | 食堂阿姨 shítáng āyí |
|---|---|
| Português | merendeira |
Talk about this word "dinner lady." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dinner%20lady. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dinner lady. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dinner%20lady "dinner lady." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dinner%20lady.Cite this
@misc{dinner_lady_2026,
title = {dinner lady},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dinner%20lady},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
