housemaid

See also: house maid and house-maid

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From house +‎ maid.

Pronunciation

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Noun

housemaid (plural housemaids)

A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
(derogatory) A housewife.

Translations

female servant attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house

Armenian: աղախին (hy) (aġaxin)
Brunei Malay: amah
Bulgarian: прислужница f (prislužnica)
Catalan: minyona (ca) f
Finnish: kotiapulainen (fi), sisäkkö (fi)
French: femme de ménage (fr) f
Greek: οικιακή βοηθός f (oikiakí voïthós)
Irish: cailín tí m, cailín aimsire m
Norman: femme dé mênage f
Swedish: hembiträde (sv) f

Verb

housemaid (third-person singular simple present housemaids, present participle housemaiding, simple past and past participle housemaided)

To be a housemaid.
To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.

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