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Definition of wet nurses in English English dictionary
- plural form of wet nurse
- wet nurse
- Someone who treats someone else with excessive care
- wet nurse
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- wet nurse
- To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
- wet nurse
- Dry nurse
- wet nurse
- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman
- wet nurse
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- wet nurse
- Cf
- wet nurse
- 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
- wet nurse
- nurse hired to breast-feed a baby; breast-feed
- wetnurses
- plural of , wetnurse
- wetnurses
- third-person singular of wetnurse
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wet nurses
Turkish pronunciation
wet nırsızPronunciation
/ˈwet ˈnərsəz/ /ˈwɛt ˈnɜrsəz/
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