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scrubwoman

/skruhb-woom-uhn/US // ˈskrʌbˌwʊm ən //

擦洗女工,擦洗女郎,搓澡工,擦鞋匠

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural scrub·wom·en.

    • : a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.

Examples

  • 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.