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Typhoid Mary definition

☆ Typhoid Mary

  1. a person who is a carrier of typhoid
  2. a person who spreads any kind of disease, infection, or corruption

Etymology: orig. nickname for Mary Mallon (died 1938), typhoid-carrying cook in New York

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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