English - Turkish
Definition of wet-nurse in English Turkish dictionary
- Süt annesi
- {f} süt annelik yap
- sütnine
- süt anne
- sütana
- süt annelik yapmak
- emzirmek
- sütanne
- wetnurse
- sütnine
- wetnurse
- itina ile bakmak
- wetnurse
- bebeğe meme vermek
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English - English
Definition of wet-nurse in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of wet nurse
- to act as wet nurse to
- to give constant and often excessive care to
- 1. (noun) a woman employed to suckle another woman's child. 2. (verb) act as a wet nurse to. ▶informal look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant
- to give someone too much care and attention, as if they were a child
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
- Someone who treats someone else with excessive care
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
- A wet-nurse
- nurse
- wet nurse
- Dry nurse
- wet nurse
- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman
- wet nurse
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- wet nurse
- Cf
- wet nurse
- In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby. a woman paid to give her breast milk to another woman's baby
- wet nurse
- nurse hired to breast-feed a baby; breast-feed
- wetnurse
- alternative spelling of wet nurse