houseworker

American  

[hous-wur-ker] / ˈhaʊsˌwɜr kər /

noun

1. a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.

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Etymology

Origin of houseworker

house + worker

Example Sentences

His father was a sign-painter, and his mother was a domestic houseworker.

From Washington Post

“Pretty good general houseworker, eh?” and the dignified professor of English at Wellington College ran nimbly down the ladder and hugged his wife.

From Project Gutenberg

But there Peter and his eccentricities and philanthropic projects vanished from mind at sight of an expense of gingham apron filling the kitchen doorway and covering the ample form of Jane, grinning and beneficent, who, as she herself said, was no skittish young thing who didn't know a good place when she had it, which accounted for the Sanfords having retained their general houseworker.

From Project Gutenberg

She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long ago, she "had the sickness," she explained one time, and some of the United Appeals agencies helped her out; she figured that part of her earnings as a houseworker should deservedly go back into the kitty.

From Time Magazine Archive