Meaning

3 senses
  1. A woman who washes people's laundry.

    Wäscherin, Waschfrau

    пра́чкаpráčka, мо́йщицаmójščica

    a working woman who takes in washing

  2. (colloquial)A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.

  3. A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
woman whose employment is laundering:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
woman whose employment is laundering:

Forms

plural: washerwomen
Singularwasherwoman
Pluralwasherwomen

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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