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noun
Diminutive of postman or postwoman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, diminutive, form-of
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noun
Diminutive of postal worker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, colloquial, diminutive, form-of, rare
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noun
A post-leftist (an adherent of post-left anarchism).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Topics: anarchism, government, human-sciences, ideology, philosophy, politics, sciences
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History
Etymology tree Latin pōnō Latin posita Italian postader. Middle French postebor. English post English -ie English postie From post + -ie.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin postbor. English post Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English postie From post + -ie.
