Daily Mailer

English

Etymology

From Daily Mail +‎ -er.

Noun

Daily Mailer (plural Daily Mailers)

1. (rare) A journalist for the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper.
   • 1899, The Parliamentary Debates, page 263, column 1:

     […] if the Committee consider they have substantial interests or views which deserve to be heard. We wish, however, to exclude blackmailers and “Daily Mailers” from this inquiry.

   • 1926, The Labour Monthly, volume 8, page 80:

     They got a real professional pressman and set going a paper with a miserable two-faced, bandy-legged policy, while a group of amateur Left Wingers and Communists set going the first Daily Herald with its magnificent record as a workers’ fighting organ. But the Right-Wing officials of the Labour Movement learned nothing by the experience, and so in place of Lansbury they installed Fyfe. He played the man to his trades union masters with the perfection which would be expected from a Daily Mailer, though he didn’t always love his new bosses, as witness his resentment when Robert Williams was appointed business manager […]

   • 1930, The Sackbut, volume X, page 44:

     He has reached the point where his idlest words are taken by Daily Mailers for the precious dogmas of a beloved sage.

   • 1934, The Legislative Assembly Debates, page 3257:

     The blackmailer produces the whitemailer and the whitemailer and blackmailer develop into a sort of a “Daily Mailer”, sensational, making your flesh creep.

   • 1936, Shane Leslie, American Wonderland: Memories of Four Tours in the United States of America (1911-1935), London: Michael Joseph Ltd., page 36:

     Only two tourist books have the merit of preserving the real impression of the moment out of hundreds written by Englishmen: Sir Lepel Griffin in the ’eighties; G. W. Steevens, the Daily Mailer of the ’nineties.

   • 1967, Margaret Morris, My Galsworthy Story, London: Peter Owen, page 96:

     For Love of Beasts will come before long I hope the savage Daily Mailers will be made more savage.

   • 1970, Timothy D’Arch Smith, Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English ‘Uranian’ Poets from 1889 to 1930, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 209:

     And I can prove it! But not to Daily Mailers, thank you!