tea lady

British  

noun

1. a woman employed in a factory, office, etc to make tea during a tea break

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tea lady

The 36-year-old, who shot to fame as the tea lady in BBC Three fly-on-the-wall series The Call Centre, was diagnosed with ADHD, external at 20.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

TV personality Hayley Pearce, who was the tea lady in the BBC series, tweeted that he was "world's greatest boss".

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2021

After all, it’s only in a Richard Curtis movie that a posh British man ends up with an English tea lady.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017

He is tea lady Long Joan Silver, the lynchpin in a plot involving Wendy's great-great-grandaughter, also called Wendy, Tinkerbell on a motorised scooter and the boy who still hasn't grown up, Peter.

From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2016

After tea, lady Feng hastened to lay out the cups and chopsticks.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft