chimney sweep

See also: chimney-sweep and chimneysweep

English

An 1850s chimney sweep.

Alternative forms

chimney-sweep, chimneysweep

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

chimney sweep (plural chimney sweeps)

A person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.
Synonyms: chimney sweeper, sweep-chimney

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Translations

occupation

Afrikaans: skoorsteenveër
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: трубачыст m (trubačyst)
Bulgarian: коминочистач (bg) m (kominočistač)
Catalan: escura-xemeneies (ca) m or f
Czech: kominík (cs) m, kominice f
Danish: skorstensfejer (da) c
Dutch: schoorsteenveger (nl) m, schoorsteenveegster (nl) f
Esperanto: kamenpurigisto
Estonian: korstnapühkija
Faroese: skorsteinssópari m
Finnish: nuohooja (fi), nokikolari (fi)
French: ramoneur (fr) m, ramoneuse (fr) f
German: Schornsteinfeger (de) m, Kaminkehrer m, Schornsteinfegerin (de) f, Kaminkehrerin f
Greek: καπνοδοχοκαθαριστής (el) m (kapnodochokatharistís)
Hungarian: kéményseprő (hu)
Icelandic: sótari m
Irish: glantóir simléar
Italian: spazzacamino (it) m, spazzacamina f
Japanese: 煙突掃除夫 (えんとつそうじふ, entotsu sōjifu)
Korean: 굴뚝 청소부 (gulttuk cheongsobu)
Latin: caminarius m
Latvian: skursteņslauķis m
Macedonian: оџачар m (odžačar)
Norman: ramonneux m
Ottoman Turkish: اوجاقجی (ocakcı)
Polish: kominiarz (pl) m
Portuguese: limpador de chaminés m, limpa-chaminés m or f
Romanian: coșar (ro) m, hornar (ro) m
Russian: трубочи́ст (ru) m (trubočíst)
Scottish Gaelic: gille-mùchain m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: димничар m, димњачар m

Roman: dimničar m, dimnjačar (sh) m
Skolt Sami: truubšeǩ
Slovak: kominár m
Spanish: deshollinador (es) m, limpiachimeneas m, deshollinadora (es) f
Swedish: sotare (sv) c, skorstensfejare (sv) c, sotarmurre c (colloquial)
Turkish: ocakçı (tr), baca temizleyicisi (tr)
Volapük: cimiklinükan (vo) m or f, cimihiklinükan m, cimijiklinükan f
Welsh: glanhäwr simneiau m

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