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dinnerlady

dinnerlady is the alternative form of dinner lady.

Meaning of dinner lady

Noun

dinner lady (plural dinner ladies)

  1. (UK, informal) 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.2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian

Forms of dinnerlady

pluraldinnerladies

Questions about dinnerlady

What is dinnerlady the alternative form of?
Dinnerlady is the alternative form of dinner lady.

Words near dinnerlady in the dictionary

  1. dinnered
  2. dinnerette
  3. dinnerettes
  4. dinnering
  5. dinnerladies
  6. dinnerlady
  7. dinnerless
  8. dinnerlessness
  9. dinnerlike
  10. dinnerly
  11. dinnermate

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