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ˈnursey
Also nursie.
A child's pet-form of nurse n.1 1.
a1814Way to win her i. ii. in New Brit. Theatre II. 407 Nursey, did you see the fine dancing-master who called to give me a lesson yesterday. 1860G. H. Lewes Let. 17 Mar. in Geo. Eliot's Lett. (1954) III. 274, I went to see Nursie, who will ‘keep house’ while I am away. 1889Pall Mall G. 17 Dec. 3/2 Nursey, you will not take Dorothy away when it is quite dark, will you? 1918A. Bennett Roll-Call ii. i. 220 Nursey's sunshade was undiscoverable. 1968‘D. Shannon’ Kill with Kindness xiii. 210 He was nursie's favorite—he could coax money out of her. 1973R. Adams Watership Down (ed. 2) xvii. 94 You risk the life of one of the best rabbits we've got, just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moon-struck field-mouse. |