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- [wet nurs]
- /wɛt nɜrs/
- /wet nɜːs/
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- [wet nurs]
- /wɛt nɜrs/
Definitions of wet-nurse word
- verb with object wet-nurse to act as a wet nurse to (an infant). 1
- verb with object wet-nurse to give excessive care or attention to; treat as if helpless: The warden is accused of wet-nursing his prisoners. 1
- noun wet-nurse a woman hired to suckle another's infant. 1
- noun wet-nurse Alternative spelling of wet nurse. 0
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Origin of wet-nurse
First appearance:
before 1775 One of the 45% newest English words
First recorded in 1775-85
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Parts of speech for Wet-nurse
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
wet-nurse popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 43% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 67% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
Synonyms for wet-nurse
verb wet-nurse
- bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- lactate — to produce milk.
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