scrubwoman

American  

[skruhb-woom-uhn] / ˈskrʌbˌwʊm ən /

noun

plural

scrubwomen

1. a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.

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Sensitive Note

See woman.

Etymology

Origin of scrubwoman

First recorded in 1870–75; scrub ¹ + woman

Example Sentences

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 Literature

She scrubbed Francie’s head with a cake of her coarse strong yellow scrubwoman’s soap until her scalp tingled with rawness.

From Literature

Dropping to the floor in front of a startled scrubwoman, she hopped up, brushed the rushes off her clothes, and was off again, out the door and along a long hall, down a stair, across a hidden courtyard, around a comer and over a wall and through a low narrow window into a pitch-dark cellar.

From Literature

ANDERSON, RAGNE, 39 years old, scrubwoman, Iroquois; 229 Grand avenue.

From Project Gutenberg

The story is told of her that a reporter from a Vienna newspaper went to interview her the afternoon before she was to sing in Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera and enquired of the scrubwoman in the hall where he could find Frau Willt.

From Project Gutenberg