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ALL meanings of wet nurse

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  • noun wet nurse woman hired to breast-feeds another's child 1
  • countable noun wet nurse In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby. 0
  • noun wet nurse a woman hired to suckle the child of another 0
  • verb wet nurse to act as a wet nurse to (a child) 0
  • verb wet nurse to attend with great devotion 0
  • noun wet nurse a woman hired to suckle another's child 0
  • verb transitive wet nurse to act as wet nurse to 0
  • verb transitive wet nurse to give overly careful attention to 0
  • noun wet nurse A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. 0
  • noun wet nurse (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. 0
  • verb wet nurse (Transitive Verb) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.). 0
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