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单词 postie
释义

postie

/ˈpəʊsti /
noun British informal
A postman or postwoman.But he said that 99.9 per cent of the time, posties with letters still undelivered at the end of their shift would still deliver them....
  • We have told how posties found undelivered mail piling up in sorting offices and how city events that depended on post getting through have been scuppered.
  • I'll admit that I did see him on television the other night, acting as a postie and trying to deliver a letter to some daft Tory candidate who had forged a picture on his election address.

Origin

Late 19th century: abbreviation.

Rhymes

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