Definitions for wet-nurse

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Spelling: [wet-nurs]
IPA: /ˈwɛtˌnɜrs/

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

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in wet-nurse (-eenrstuw).

Definitions for wet-nurse

noun

  1. a woman hired to suckle another's infant.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as a wet nurse to (an infant).
  2. to give excessive care or attention to; treat as if helpless:

Origin of wet-nurse

First recorded in 1775-85

Examples for wet-nurse

"Well, I'm damned," said the wet-nurse And went out, looking thoughtful.

The choosing of a wet-nurse is a matter of great moment and responsibility.

The whole household were immediately sent in quest of a wet-nurse.

It cannot be learned whether when he was staying with the wet-nurse he ever had convulsions.

She wished they were larger though, and dreamed of having breasts like a wet-nurse.

She was to be his wet-nurse, and to assume the whole charge of the infant.

The potential role of the wet-nurse, in this context, begins to take on different significance.

I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.

There was no wet-nurse to be had, but a woman from the village had been sent for.

Of course the reader recognises in her the wet-nurse who had exchanged her child.

Word Value for wet-nurse
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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