scrubwoman
Americannoun
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scrubwomen
plural
Sensitivity
See woman.
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Origin of scrubwoman
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Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em."
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The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say.
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She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman.
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Winifred Westover spent six weeks eating fattening foods so as to be big enough for the title role in this biography of a cook and scrubwoman with a big heart.
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Johnny looked like a handsome, devil-may-care Irish boy instead of the husband of a scrubwoman and the father of two children who were always hungry.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
When she tells an anecdote, gesturing extravagantly, she plays all the roles involved, right down to such spear-carriers as waiters and scrubwomen.
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What has hit them hardest is the demand of scrubwomen, kitchen help and janitors to be paid what is called a living wage.
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He lives in an empty barnlike structure which has not been troubled by scrubwomen for months.
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Yardsmen and scrubwomen stopped work, gathered around a sidetracked private car whence it came.
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Ten thousand men working through the night had touched up the paint and staff and planted pansies and laid sod as a thousand scrubwomen washed, waxed, and polished the floors of the great buildings.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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