"scrubwoman" meaning in English

See scrubwoman in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: scrubwomen [plural]
Etymology: scrub + woman Etymology templates: {{compound|en|scrub|woman}} scrub + woman Head templates: {{en-noun|scrubwomen}} scrubwoman (plural scrubwomen)
  1. (US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office. Tags: US Categories (topical): Female people Synonyms: charwoman
    Sense id: en-scrubwoman-en-noun-OXpB87uu Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for scrubwoman meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scrub",
        "3": "woman"
      },
      "expansion": "scrub + woman",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "scrub + woman",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrubwomen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "scrubwomen"
      },
      "expansion": "scrubwoman (plural scrubwomen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female people",
          "orig": "en:Female people",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: scrubman"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrubwoman-en-noun-OXpB87uu",
      "links": [
        [
          "housework",
          "housework"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "charwoman"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrubwoman"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scrub",
        "3": "woman"
      },
      "expansion": "scrub + woman",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "scrub + woman",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrubwomen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "scrubwomen"
      },
      "expansion": "scrubwoman (plural scrubwomen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "en:Female people"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: scrubman"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "housework",
          "housework"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "charwoman"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrubwoman"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.