Definitions for dry-nurse

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Spelling: [drahy-nurs]
IPA: /ˈdraɪˌnɜrs/

Dry-Nurse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in dry-nurse (-denrrsuy).

Definitions for dry-nurse

noun

  1. a nurse who takes care of but does not breast-feed another's infant. Compare wet nurse.
  2. Informal. a person who tutors and guides an inexperienced person at work.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as a dry nurse to.

Origin of dry-nurse

First recorded in 1575-85

Examples for dry-nurse

My dry-nurse never desires anything of me that is not reasonable, and for my own good; and therefore I like to be with him.

The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly.

With a Konigseck to dry-nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well?

I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.

You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no.

Keep the nurse here as dry-nurse so that she may not carry the infection elsewhere.

“He appears to be a kind of dry-nurse to you,” said the judge, rising.

At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.

To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan.

If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above.

Word Value for dry-nurse
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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