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View synonyms for chimney sweep

chimney sweep

or chimney sweeper

noun

  1. a person whose business it is to clean out chimneys.


chimney sweep

noun

  1. a person whose job is the cleaning out of soot from chimneys
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chimney sweep1

First recorded in 1605–15
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Example Sentences

You can prevent this by having a professional chimney sweep inspect your chimney annually, cleaning it as needed.

And then if the ghost of a chimney-sweep were to appear—and why not the spirit of a sweep as well as anybody else?

Jimmy says the chimney-sweep was doing bayonet exercises with his brush at Faithful and working his black face at him.

Jimmy says the beads of perspiration stood on the chimney-sweep's face like ink.

After the chimney-sweep came a cook; then came one of the city sweepers, from the Raineri School, to get a prize.

It was very much as if a London chimney-sweep were to go to-morrow to ask audience and favors of Queen Victoria.

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