(British) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
(British) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
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(British) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
(UK, Irish) A vehicle for collecting refuse.
British and Irish English for a refuse or garbage truck — the vehicle that collects household rubbish. The word comes from an era when household ash and dust from coal fires was the primary waste collected. It is the standard term in the UK and Ireland, equivalent to American 'garbage truck' or 'trash truck'.
(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
(slang, derogatory, figuratively, dated) Nonsense; rubbish.