scrubwoman

[ skruhb-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural scrub·wom·en.

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

Sensitive Note

See woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrubwoman¹

First recorded in 1870–75; scrub ¹ + woman

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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