WotD: chimney sweep

[muckefuck]

1. der Schornsteinfeger, der Rauchfangkehrer, der Kaminfeger
2. de schoorsteenveger
3. el deshollinador, el limpiachimeneas
4. el escura-xemeneies
5. le ramoneur
6. an giolla múcháin, an glantóir simléar
7. y glanhäwr simneiau
8. kominiarz
9. 굴뚝 청소부 (굴뚝 淸掃夫)
10. 掃煙囪工人 sǎoyāncōnggōngrén
11. 煙突掃除夫 (えんとつそうじふ)

Notes: This entry is really nothing more than an excuse for a place to contain the lovely word Rauchfangkehrer, which I stumbled across by accident today. (I suspect it might be a Vindobonism, though I don't have confirmation of that.) After all, there's no possible practical use for these words given that our gas fireplace doesn't even have a false flue.

According to Dad, Grandaddy has no use for chimney sweeps either. When the creosote buildup got to be too much, he just tossed a match up the chimney and started a flue fire. I remember thinking that you'd want to have a lot of faith in the structural integrity of the brickwork to do something like that.