charlady

American  

[chahr-ley-dee] / ˈtʃɑrˌleɪ di /

noun

British.

• charladies
  plural

1. a charwoman.

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charlady British  

/ ˈtʃɑːˌleɪdɪ /

noun

1. another name for charwoman

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• charladies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of charlady

First recorded in 1905–10; char(woman) + lady

Example Sentences

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charlady charladies

This is Lesley Manville in last summer’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” playing a British charlady in midcentury England who saves her money to realize her dream of owning a Dior gown.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

Mrs Harris is a no-nonsense East End charlady.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2012

Almost every college has its campus character—a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor.

From Time Magazine Archive

So that, in peccable cockney, and a scrutable plot, is where Paul Gallico's favorite charlady winds up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robbie held the man's eye and answered pleasantly that his father had walked out long ago and that his mother was a charlady who supplemented her income as an occasional clairvoyant.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Although she rarely described actual murder, the dead bodies in her novels always made an indelible impression on the charladies, small boys and other innocent bystanders who chanced upon them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2014

His sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In colleges throughout the land last week janitors and charladies began once more to shuffle about their leisurely jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whole army of fat, lean and guttural-speaking charladies, behind carefully drawn blinds, worked all night long on the office floors, desks, counters and windows.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert