单词 | wet nurse |
释义 | wet nursen. A woman who is hired to suckle and nurse another woman's child. Cf. dry-nurse n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse nursea1325 suck-giver1551 milkdame1582 nurse-girl1596 wet nursea1627 suck-nurse1652 dai1782 grass-nurse1797 amah1832 a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 20 I call the Wet Nurse hither. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 45 Shee was both wet-Nurse, and dry-Nurse herselfe. And yet this his handmaid was his Mother. 1689 Full Answ. Depos. Birth Pr. Wales 7 Query, Whether she did not use to provide a Wet-Nurse, at her other Deliveries. 1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 8 Feb. 70/2 Wants a place, as Wet Nurse, a young woman with a good breast of milk. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. iii. 33 A wet-nurse being wanted at the great house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1627 |
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