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

2. A machine used to sweep streets.

Alternative forms

• street-sweeper

Translations

person employed to sweep streets, etc.

• Bulgarian: уличен метач m (uličen metač)
• Catalan: escombriaire (ca) m or f, escombrador m, escombradora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 清道夫 (cing¹ dou⁶ fu¹)

  Mandarin: 清道夫 (zh) (qīngdàofū)

• Dutch: straatveger (nl)
• 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:

  Northern 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), му́сорщик (ru) m (músorščik)
• Spanish: barrendero (es) m, barrendera (es) f
• Swedish: gatsopare (sv) c, gatsoperska c (female)
• Urdu: خاکروب
• Yoruba: agbálẹ̀, gbálẹ̀gbálẹ̀

machine used to sweep streets

• Catalan: escombradora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 清道夫 (cing¹ dou⁶ fu¹)

  Mandarin: 清道夫 (zh) (qīngdàofū)

• Danish: fejemaskine
• Dutch: veegmachine (nl) 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
• Swedish: sopmaskin (sv) c
• Urdu: خاکروب
• Vietnamese: xe quét đường

References

• “street-sweeper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.