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# washerman

«washerman» in Mova's school dictionary: **a man whose job is washing other people's clothes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (washermen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A washerman is a man whose job is washing other people's clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/#m1)

2) In an old saying, «a washerman's donkey» is a silly or put-upon creature, used as a joke about being made to do someone else's work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a plain job of work in old tales; the saying «a washerman's donkey» is a joke about a fool who is taken for a beast of burden

### examples

- Do you take me for a washerman's donkey? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/#x1)
- The hare gravely replied, «This is a washerman's donkey.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/#x2)
- The shark did not like being laughed at and asked what the joke about a washerman's donkey meant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «washerman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/washerman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.