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postie¹

  • /ˈpəʊsti/

Rhymes with -əʊsti

noun posties · posty

  1. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, diminutive Diminutive of postman or postwoman. Did the postie come this morning?
  2. Canada, colloquial, diminutive, rare Diminutive of postal worker

Similar: mailman, postman, letter carrier, posto

postie²

  • /ˈpəʊsti/

Rhymes with -əʊsti

noun posties

  1. Internet A post-leftist (an adherent of post-left anarchism). There's the "armchair" critique, which borrows from the "lifestyle anarchist" angle. Basically that posties just spend their time writing essays and polemics and don't do any praxis. This is just a generalization which can often turn out to be false if you step away from the sphere of internet anarc

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Similar: mailman, postman, letter carrier, posto

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@misc{postie_2026,
  title = {postie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/postie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}