Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman hired to do cleaning or similar work, usually in a large building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman hired to do chares or odd work, or to work by the day.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK A woman employed to do
housework .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a human female employed to do housework
Etymologies
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Examples
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WILLIS: A charwoman is a person who cleans a building, so she is responsible for cleaning up the building.
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Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess.
The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008
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Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess.
The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008
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Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor.
Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security? Richard H. Smith 2010
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(I say charwoman, meaning a woman who is paid to do work that other servants are hired to do, but will not.) [Illustration]
The Pirate's Pocket Book Dion Clayton Calthrop 1907
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She usually dressed rather in the style of a superior kind of charwoman, and it was not so very surprising that she should have imagined that she was one; and still less that people should accept her statement and help her to get work.
The Toys of Peace, and other papers 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Richard H. Smith 2010
BrainyBabe commented on the word charwoman
She darted about the room like a charwoman in torment, now straightening a cushion, now folding a Special Racing Edition, now hustling a shameful pile of lingerie behind a modest curtain. -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word charwoman
See also char.
December 24, 2008
sarra commented on the word charwoman
Whoops, I appear to have listed both this and charlady!
December 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word charwoman
That's okay, sarra, they're both words, right?
December 24, 2008