Translation for "maid-of-all-work" to spanish

Maid-of-all-work

noun

• chica para todo

Translation examples

chica para todo noun

It’s obvious that she detests being a maid-of-all-work;
Está claro que aborrece ser una chica para todo;

She was sent off again, after consultation with the minister at the Chapel, to be maid of all work to two maiden lady schoolteachers in Conisborough.
Tras consultarlo con el pastor de la capilla, la enviaron a trabajar como chica para todo con dos solteronas que eran maestras de escuela en Conisborough.

He takes it in his rooms, where it arrives every morning, carried in on a wooden tray by Dora, his landlady’s maid-of-all-work.
Lo toma en sus habitaciones, adonde cada mañana se lo sube en una bandeja de madera la chica para todo de su patrona.

She advertised in newspapers, applied to agencies, but she had a single housemaid and a maid-of-all-work and no one to wait at table.
La señora de Martin-White puso un anuncio en la prensa y envió solicitudes a agencias, pero solo consiguió una criada para la limpieza y una chica para todo, y nadie para servir la mesa.

She said it was the custom for young girls in this country to hire themselves out, in order to earn the money for their dowries; and then they would marry, and if their husbands prospered they would soon be hiring their own servants in their turn, at the very least a maid-of-all-work;
Según la costumbre, las chicas se iban a servir para ganarse el dinero de la dote y después se casaban y, si el marido prosperaba, pronto contrataban a su vez a una criada o, por lo menos, a una chica para todo;

Their maid-of-all-work merely nodded when I asked whether one of the older children would walk home with him later, then went back to her washing; it was laundry day all over Philadelphia, and the humid atmosphere was aggravated by a score of steaming washtubs in the neighborhood, all fuming with the reek of washing soda.
Su chica para todo se limitó a asentir cuando le pregunté si uno de los hijos mayores podía acompañarlo a casa más tarde y siguió lavando: era el día de la colada en toda Filadelfia, y la humedad del ambiente se veía agravada por montones de tinas humeantes en el vecindario, todas ellas despidiendo vapores de sosa.