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wet nurse

noun

: a woman who cares for and breast-feeds other people's babies as a job

Full Definition of WET NURSE

:  a woman who cares for and suckles children not her own
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First Known Use of WET NURSE

1620

Rhymes with WET NURSE

adverse, amerce, asperse, averse, coerce, commerce, converse, cutpurse, disburse, disperse, diverse, dry nurse, free verse, immerse, inverse, Nez Percé, obverse, perverse, rehearse, reverse, scrub nurse, sesterce, submerse, transverse, traverse
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wet nurse

noun

Medical Definition of WET NURSE

:  a woman who cares for and suckles young not her own

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2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. wet nurse
  2. wet-nurse
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