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wet-nurse

n. (alternative spelling of wet nurse English)

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wet-nurse

v. give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]

wet-nurse

n. a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else [syn: wet nurse, wetnurse, amah]

Usage examples of "wet-nurse".

He wears the Aristotelian cosmology like a shackle, clings to it like a wet-nurse, feeds upon its milk of false assumptions, and postulates the most unlikely machinery of epicycle, deferent, and equant.

Have you had any interest in our search or was I just saving Planir the cost of hiring you a wet-nurse for your journey?

Then there was Cellie and her baby and wet-nurse, with no end of servants, male and female.

John's Hospital and wet-nursed a dipsomaniacal actress named ZaSu Pitts on the side.

That's all the amahs ever made for her after they stopped wet-nursing her.

Let me fill in a few pieces of the big mosaic for you, boy: Here I am, playing wet-nurse to all of you morons, the sorriest passel of lowdown, worthless sissies ever to escape being infant sacrifices to Baal Hammon back when it might've done us all some good.

And a little farther down the street, the dragoons exercising in the yard of the Znamensky barracks—the chargers mincing in a circle, the men vaulting into the saddles and riding past, at a walk, at a trot, and at a gallop, and outside, the row of children with nannies and wet-nurses gaping through the railings.