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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse

nursea1325

suck-giver1551

milkdame1582

nurse-girl1596

wet nursea1627

suck-nurse1652

dai1782

grass-nurse1797

amah1832

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).

单词	wet nurse
释义	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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse nursea1325 suck-giver1551 milkdame1582 nurse-girl1596 wet nursea1627 suck-nurse1652 dai1782 grass-nurse1797 amah1832 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). < n.a1627
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