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scrubwoman

[ skruhb-woom-uhn ]

noun

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


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Sensitive Note

See woman.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scrubwoman1

First recorded in 1870–75; scrub 1 + woman
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Example Sentences

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

I'm afraid that I might sometimes do things that would remind you that I had been only a scrubwoman.

You should find that you had married not only a scrubwoman but—the sister of a—thief!

A scrubwoman answered his ring at 32 Bulfinch Place and left him standing in the hall while she went for the landlady.

If I were a scrubwoman, and starving, I wouldn't consider a proposal of marriage from that Jap sufficiently long to reject it.

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