scrubwoman

[ skruhb-woom-uhn ]

noun,plural scrub·wom·en.
  1. a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.

Origin of scrubwoman

1
First recorded in 1870–75; scrub1 + woman

usage note For scrubwoman

See woman.

Words Nearby scrubwoman

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How to use scrubwoman in a sentence

  • Those Lydia could do herself, or she could hire an unpresentable older scrubwoman to do them.

    The Squirrel-Cage | Dorothy Canfield
  • I'm afraid that I might sometimes do things that would remind you that I had been only a scrubwoman.

    The Definite Object | Jeffery Farnol
  • You should find that you had married not only a scrubwoman but—the sister of a—thief!

    The Definite Object | Jeffery Farnol
  • A scrubwoman answered his ring at 32 Bulfinch Place and left him standing in the hall while she went for the landlady.

    The Mission of Poubalov | Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) Burton
  • If I were a scrubwoman, and starving, I wouldn't consider a proposal of marriage from that Jap sufficiently long to reject it.

    The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. Kyne