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ˈsick-nurse, n.
[sick a. 10.]
A nurse who attends upon the sick.
1816Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 284 He has had an infernal tumble..and..I have sent your friend, Sweep⁓clean..to act as his sick-nurse. 1821― Kenilw. vii, I could not be expected to watch him like a sick-nurse. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 155 She was a sick-nurse, when my friend knew her. 1890‘L. Falconer’ Mlle. Ixe v. (1891) 133 At one time I was a sick nurse.
Hence ˈsick-nurse v., to act as a sick-nurse. sick-nursish a., appropriate to a sick-nurse.
1844Kinglake Eothen xix, This homely, sick-nursish illustration of the effect produced upon one's mind by the mere vastness of the great Pyramid. 1897E. L. Voynich Gadfly (1904) 2/1 You were tired out with sick-nursing and being up at night. |