wet nurse
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Noun [edit]
wet nurse (plural wet nurses)
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
- (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
Translations [edit]
woman hired to suckle another woman's child
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someone who treats someone else with excessive care
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Verb [edit]
wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)
- (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
