See charwoman on Wiktionary
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}
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"ref": "1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:",
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"(chiefly British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages."
],
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"word": "char"
},
{
"word": "charlady"
},
{
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"word": "Cinderella"
},
{
"word": "cleaning woman"
},
{
"word": "char-woman"
}
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "havakʻararuhi",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "հավաքարարուհի"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qīngjié nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "清潔女工 /清洁女工"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiāzhèng nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "家政女工"
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"roman": "nǚ bǎojiéyuán",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "女保洁員"
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"roman": "nǚ qīngjiégōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "女清潔工 /女清洁工"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎzá nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "打雜女工 /打杂女工"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "rengøringsdame"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "poetsvrouw"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "schoonmaakster"
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "passija"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "taloudenhoitaja"
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"word": "femme de journée"
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "femme de service"
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "technicienne de surface"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "nettoyeuse"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
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"word": "Putzfrau"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "menaká",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "מנקה"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "takarítónő"
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"roman": "sōjifu",
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"word": "家政婦"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sojebu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "소제부"
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"alt": "家政婦",
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gajeongbu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "가정부"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izmeḱarka",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "измеќарка"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "vaskedame"
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"lang": "Polish",
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"word": "sprzątaczka"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "empregada"
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"word": "arrumadeira"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "femeie de serviciu"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubórščica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "убо́рщица"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "podjónščica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "подёнщица"
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"roman": "domrabótnica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
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"word": "домрабо́тница"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mujer de la limpieza"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "städerska"
}
]
}
],
"word": "charwoman"
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"ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter IX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:",
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{
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],
"word": "Cinderella"
},
{
"word": "cleaning woman"
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{
"word": "char-woman"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "havakʻararuhi",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "հավաքարարուհի"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qīngjié nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "清潔女工 /清洁女工"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiāzhèng nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "家政女工"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǚ bǎojiéyuán",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "女保洁員"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǚ qīngjiégōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "女清潔工 /女清洁工"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎzá nǚgōng",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "打雜女工 /打杂女工"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "rengøringsdame"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "meid"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "poetsvrouw"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schoonmaakster"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "passija"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "taloudenhoitaja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
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"word": "femme de ménage"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "femme de journée"
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"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
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"word": "technicienne de surface"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "nettoyeuse"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Putzfrau"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "menaká",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מנקה"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "takarítónő"
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"alt": "そうじふ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sōjifu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "掃除婦"
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"alt": "かせいふ",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaseifu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "家政婦"
},
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"alt": "掃除婦",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sojebu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "소제부"
},
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"alt": "家政婦",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gajeongbu",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"word": "가정부"
},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izmeḱarka",
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"word": "измеќарка"
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"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"word": "vaskedame"
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"word": "empregada"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "arrumadeira"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "femeie de serviciu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubórščica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "убо́рщица"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podjónščica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "подёнщица"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "domrabótnica",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "домрабо́тница"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mujer de la limpieza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cleaning lady",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "städerska"
}
],
"word": "charwoman"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.