wet nurse

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English - English
Someone who treats someone else with excessive care
A woman hired to suckle another woman's child
To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
Dry nurse
A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman
a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
Cf
In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby. a woman paid to give her breast milk to another woman's baby
nurse hired to breast-feed a baby; breast-feed
wet nurses
plural form of wet nurse
wet-nurse
Alternative spelling of wet nurse
wet-nurse
to act as wet nurse to
wet-nurse
to give constant and often excessive care to
wet-nurse
1. (noun) a woman employed to suckle another woman's child. 2. (verb) act as a wet nurse to. ▶informal look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant
wet-nurse
to give someone too much care and attention, as if they were a child
wet-nurse
a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
wet-nurse
give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
wetnurse
alternative spelling of wet nurse
wet nurse

    Turkish pronunciation

    wet nırs

    Pronunciation

    /ˈwet ˈnərs/ /ˈwɛt ˈnɜrs/

    Etymology

    [ 'wet ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English, partly from past participle of weten to wet & partly from Old English w[AE]t wet; akin to Old Norse vAtr wet, Old English wæter water.
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