A female domestic servant responsible for washing dishes and doing other menial household chores.
we could do with a scullery maid to scour the dirtiest pots
Example sentencesExamples
Lady Montcliffe had two scullery maids who worked for her.
There's also an old scullery maid who, despite the fact that she's been complicit in the dirty deeds, is still concerned for the well-being of everyone around her.
There is a grouse plucking scene in the kitchen, in which the cook and two scullery maids are tearing at the birds as if they have lost their minds.
I'm fairly sure that a scullery maid wouldn't have a chance in the world of discovering the kind of information we need.
She was an unselfish creature, he noted, up a full hour before the scullery maid, helping her with her work so that she might sleep in.
Pity poor Lucy, the scullery maid, who makes the mistake of arriving at the front door of Manderston.
She's in the kitchen; she's a scullery maid, and the best one ever seen, that's certain.
The scullery maids and female staff curtsied and then departed.
Mary, the scullery maid, leaned out the kitchen door cautiously.
He could have asked them about their situation then and there, but that would not have the same effect as already knowing that the eldest daughter of the family was a scullery maid in service at the great house.
Definition of scullery maid in US English:
scullery maid
noun
historical
A female domestic servant responsible for washing dishes and doing other household work.
we could do with a scullery maid to scour the dirtiest pots
Example sentencesExamples
He could have asked them about their situation then and there, but that would not have the same effect as already knowing that the eldest daughter of the family was a scullery maid in service at the great house.
Pity poor Lucy, the scullery maid, who makes the mistake of arriving at the front door of Manderston.
The scullery maids and female staff curtsied and then departed.
I'm fairly sure that a scullery maid wouldn't have a chance in the world of discovering the kind of information we need.
She was an unselfish creature, he noted, up a full hour before the scullery maid, helping her with her work so that she might sleep in.
There's also an old scullery maid who, despite the fact that she's been complicit in the dirty deeds, is still concerned for the well-being of everyone around her.
Lady Montcliffe had two scullery maids who worked for her.
Mary, the scullery maid, leaned out the kitchen door cautiously.
She's in the kitchen; she's a scullery maid, and the best one ever seen, that's certain.
There is a grouse plucking scene in the kitchen, in which the cook and two scullery maids are tearing at the birds as if they have lost their minds.