单词 | nursing mother |
释义 | nursing mothern.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > foster-mother foster-mother?a1000 nursing mother1535 nurse-mother1579 fostress1603 foster-nurse1607 mammy1618 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlix. E For kinges shalbe thy noursinge fathers, and Quenes shalbe thy noursinge mothers. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. Proem. sig. B5 Thou nursing Mother of faire wisedoms lore, Ingenuous Melancholy. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋1 Those noursing fathers and mothers that withdraw..liuelyhood and support. 1641 R. Brathwait Panaretees Triumph in Astraea's Teares sig. E5v Remove that funerall-pile; now six whole yeares Have beene the Nursing mothers of my teares. 1697 P. A. Motteux et al. Novelty v. 48 With this Nursing-Mother of Surgeons in my Hand, I took the Grand Visir, thus! 1731 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 230 Of Arian and of Orthodox Alike the nursing-mother. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 312 And I, a Nursing-mother, rock the throne. 1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 19 Under its ancient lords, this nursing-mother of privateers would be powerful..in that part of the world. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life i. iii. 16 In the lands of the vine—the plant is looked upon as a nursing-mother. 2. A mother who breastfeeds her baby. Also in extended use, of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > woman suckling nursing mother1801 breast feeder1910 1801 T. Holcroft tr. J. W. von Goethe Herman & Dorothea vii. 135 While thus they spoke, relations crouding came; Eager to ease a nursing mother's wants. 1897 G. Tucker Mother, Baby & Nursery 96 It becomes the first duty of the nursing mother to take care of herself. 1926 E. von Arnim Introd. to Sally ix. 154 Good job I ain't a nursin' mother..or the lady'd turn my milk sour. 1974 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet xxviii. 328 Nursing mothers in the United States have so much DDT in their milk that, to quote a scientific humorist, ‘in strict terms of federal law, it is illegal for them to carry their busts..across one state line to another’. 1989 D. Morris Catlore (BNC) 69 If a nursing mother has a normal-sized litter it is possible to add one or two orphaned kittens to it without much difficulty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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