| 单词 | at dry nurse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat dry nurse 1. A woman who takes care of and attends to a child, but does not suckle it (opposed to wet nurse); formerly, also, in the general sense of ‘nurse’. at dry nurse (cf. nurse n.1 2a). ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up > nurse nouricec1225 nursea1325 rockera1325 nourish1340 nursha1382 nursery nurse1494 nutrice1529 nurse-girl1596 dry-nursea1616 nursey1760 bonne1771 ayah1782 nanny1785 momma1803 nursery girla1812 mammy1837 nanac1844 day nurse1855 caretaker1858 nursekin1862 Norland1894 nounou1894 nurselet1894 Plunket1909 metapelet1950 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. ii. 4 One Mistris Quickly; which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse [1602 try nurse]; or his Cooke. View more context for this quotation a1618 W. Raleigh Instr. to Sonne ii, in Remains (1661) 84 After a while thou didst love thy Drie-nurse, and didst forget the other. 1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours v. iii There's no cook, nor dry-nurse, like a wife. 1731 J. Swift To Gay 8 Make a dry-nurse of thy muse? 1839 R. Barham in Bentley's Misc. 6 640 Neglecting the poor little dear out at dry-nurse. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. iii. 169 To play the drynurse to three starving brats. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 206 Mrs. Horsfall had him at dry-nurse. < as lemmas |
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