| 单词 | wet-nurse | 
| 释义 | wet-nursev. a.  transitive. To serve as wet nurse to, suckle (another woman's infant). Also transferred. ΚΠ 1784    Morning Chron. 13 Apr. 4/4 		(advt.)	  				Wanted, a Child to Wet Nurse, by a Young Woman, with a good breast of milk. 1786    A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions III. 62  				At the house of the woman who had wet-nursed him. 1860    O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table i. 33  				A mythus..Such as Livy told about the wolf that wet-nursed Romulus and Remus.  b.  figurative. To treat tenderly or take under special care, as if helpless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of			[verb (transitive)]		 > excessively baby1744 mollycoddle1851 wet-nurse1873 overprotectc1885 nursery-maid1899 nursemaid1921 nanny1954 nannify1962 1873    Siliad 109  				A curious youth..Who, ere his whiskers had completely grown, Possessed a comic paper of his own; But though wet-nursed by someone in Debrett, It died quite young. 1891    Telegr. Jrnl. 13 Feb. 205/2  				The system of wet-nursing adopted by the Post Office authorities in the case of the telegraph service has not been one of uniform success. 1893    Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 6/1  				A member of independent spirit—not wet-nursed for party purposes by political gold. 1917    Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 584/1  				I was wet-nursed by an elderly old buffer of a General. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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