charwoman

English

Etymology

char + woman.

Noun

charwoman (plural charwomen)

1. (chiefly UK) A woman employed to do housework.

Note: In the nineteenth century, the charlady worked for weekly wages and usually came and went on a daily basis.

Synonyms

• cinderella
• cleaning woman

Translations

a woman employed to do housework

Chinese: Mandarin: 打杂 (zh)女工 (zh) Dutch: poetsvrouw, schoonmaakster (nl) f. French: technicienne de surface (fr) f., femme de ménage (fr) f., nettoyeuse (fr) f. German: Putzfrau (de) f.

Hebrew: עוזרת בית (he) (ozéret báit) f. Hungarian: bejárónő (hu) Russian: домработница (ru) (domrabótnitsa) f. Spanish: limpiadora (es) f.