mail-lady

plural mail-ladies

1. alternativeAlternative form of mail lady.

   What won’t I do? Bite mailmen or mail-ladies. They have plenty to contend with already. I leave that for the dregs of the personal-injury biters.

   2025 November 10, Ian Frazier, “I Bite Back”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2025

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   Some of the youngsters at Pennekamp Elementary School showed an early awareness of sexual stereotyping by listing their goals as “fire-engine person,” “mail-lady” and “pet store woman.”

   1990 April 11, Steve Harvey, “The Case of the Alleged Serial Panty...”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025

   “Think you got a big enough pencil there?” Reba the mail-lady asks Pee-wee as he hauls out a giant pencil to write a letter to his seafaring friend Captain Carl.

   1993, Constance Penley, “The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror”, in Constance Penley, Sharon Wills, editors, Male Trouble (Camera Obscura), Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 121