typhoid mary

1. 1.

   United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)

   SynonymsMallonMary Mallon

   Broadercarrier

Questions about typhoid mary

What does typhoid mary mean?

typhoid mary means "United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)".

What is another word for typhoid mary?

Close synonyms include Mallon, Mary Mallon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is typhoid mary a common word?

typhoid mary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.