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n. - Someone whose occupation is the removal of soot from flues and pipes.

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Usage examples (17)
  • A chimneysweep diagnosed pigeons nesting in our defunct flues.
  • Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush? —
  • In fact I fear sometimes that I have the ambition of a genius, the eye and ear of a genius, and the talent of a chimneysweep.
  • I hired them because I needed the chimney cleaned in February and the first four chimneysweep companies I called either had disconnected numbers or I got answering...
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