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单词 wet nurse
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wet nursen.

Brit. /ˈwɛt nəːs/, U.S. /ˈwɛt ˌnərs/
Forms: Also wet-nurse.
A woman who is hired to suckle and nurse another woman's child. Cf. dry-nurse n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse
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grass-nurse1797
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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.
figurative and in extended use.1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster xxi, in Whims & Oddities 129 How Romulus was bred in savage wood, By wet-nurse wolf, devoid of wolfish rage.1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxii. 375 China has acted the wet-nurse to Mongolia, and discharged her duty well.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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