street sweeper

street sweeper

English

Noun

street sweeper (plural street sweepers)

1. A person who is employed to sweep streets, pavements, and gutters, keeping them clear of litter.

   Synonyms: metro aide (Philippines), roadsweeper, scaffie (Britain, dialectal, dated), scaffy (Scotland, colloquial), street cleaner, streetcleaner, whitewing (US)

2. A machine used to sweep streets.

Alternative forms

• street-sweeper

Translations

person employed to sweep streets, etc.

Catalan: escombriaire m or f Chinese: Cantonese: 清道夫 (cing1 dou6 fu1) Mandarin: 清道夫 (zh) (qīngdàofū) Estonian: tänavapühkija Finnish: kadunlakaisija, katusiivooja French: balayeur (fr) m Galician: varredor m German: Straßenkehrer (de) m, Straßenfeger (de) m Greek: οδοκαθαριστής (el) m (odokatharistís) Hungarian: utcaseprő (hu) Italian: spazzino (it) m, scopino (it) m Japanese: 街路清掃人 Kannada: (please verify) ತೋಟಿ (kn) (tōṭi)

Kurdish: (please verify) zibilkêş (ku) Latvian: sētnieks m Lithuanian: kiemsargis m Norman: (Jersey) gratteux m Norwegian: Bokmål: gatefeier m Nynorsk: gatefeiar m Persian: رفتگر‎ (fa) (roftegar) Polish: zamiatacz (pl) m Portuguese: varredor de rua m, gari (pt) m Romanian: măturător (ro) m Russian: дво́рник (ru) m (dvórnik) Spanish: barrendero (es) m Urdu: خاکروب‎

machine used to sweep streets

Chinese: Cantonese: 清道夫 (cing1 dou6 fu1) Mandarin: 清道夫 (zh) (qīngdàofū) Danish: fejemaskine Dutch: veegmachine f French: balayeuse (fr) f German: Kehrmaschine (de) f Greek: σάρωθρο δρόμων n (sárothro drómon) Hebrew: מטאטא רחוב‎ Icelandic: götusópari

Italian: spazzatrice (it) f Japanese: 街路清掃車 Norwegian: Bokmål: feiemaskin m Nynorsk: feiemaskin m or f Polish: zamiatarka f Russian: подмета́льная маши́на f (podmetálʹnaja mašína) Spanish: barredora (es) f Urdu: خاکروب‎ Vietnamese: xe quét đường

References

• “street-sweeper” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.