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wet nurse
Word definitions for wet nurse in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. n. 1 A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) Someone ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wet nurse \Wet" nurse`\ A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed when the mother is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures the families are ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else [syn: wet-nurse , wetnurse , amah ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I remember the names of the two servants were Abatahun and Astakakalij, the wet nurse .
Usage examples of wet nurse.
The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.
I am in charge, of course, and I want a wet nurse for him _at once_.
I had only sensual memories, of Gloria stripping quickly her breasts seemingly pumped up like muscles with 'roids the nipples hard as if her spare job were as a wet nurse to a day care center and then before I could make a move she was rolling her leg over mine so that I was in her almost before I knew it was her--I had the sense that she had learned this as a preemptive strike against an impotent male since you'd have to deflate quick to avoid being in there--and the rest being bliss but for its lightness, as if it never made it to the engram stage of my biochemical memory.
Given the matchup of a Twentieth Century male classics professor versus a Trojan wet nurse circa 1200 b.
She'd earned money and food as a wet nurse on her way to Peking, but for the past day and a half she hadn't found anyone with a baby that needed to nurse.