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