Housemaid vs Housecleaner - What's the difference?
housemaid | housecleaner |
A female servant attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house. (as opposed to a scullery maid.)
(derogatory) a housewife.
Someone employed to clean a house.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 15, author=Dan Bilefsky, title=In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration, work=New York Times
, passage=Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted.}}
As nouns the difference between housemaid and housecleaner
is that housemaid is a female servant attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house (as opposed to a scullery maid) while housecleaner is someone employed to clean a house.As a verb housemaid
is to be a housemaid.housemaid
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