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A charlady is a woman whose paid work is cleaning someone else’s house — washing floors, scrubbing the kitchen, doing the odd jobs that keep a home running. It is the same job as a charwoman; lady is a polite, slightly old-fashioned upgrade of woman. The word is British, and it belongs to an older class world: a woman who came in to clean for a family by the day or by the hour. You will meet it in old novels, old films, and jokes about downstairs staff. Though actually, almost nobody young says charlady now; people say cleaner. The lady in the word does not mean she is rich or grand. It is a soft name for hard work. In some houses she was treated kindly; in others she was treated as if she barely counted. That social sting is part of how the word feels.
女清潔工（英式舊稱，等於 charwoman；不是貴婦）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
charladynoun/ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/
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archaichistoricalA woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
- "Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.
- MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。