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Definition of "scrubwoman" []

  • A woman hired to clean. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "scrubwoman" in a sentence
  • "After this, May sunk into obscurity, and years of poverty followed, whereupon she took positions as a scrubwoman, a housekeeper, and a janitor."
  • "Hopeless; there were far too many English, and not even the lowliest scrubwoman was of any other color than white."
  • "As the dizzy debutante Lotte L'stig, she found herself during a flood, disguised as a scrubwoman, proceeding downriver in a bathtub with rich playboy Max Schlepzig."