street sweeper

English

Noun

street sweeper (plural street sweepers)

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)
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.

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