dry nurse

dry nurse

noun

Definition of DRY NURSE

: a nurse who takes care of but does not breast-feed another woman's baby

Examples of DRY NURSE

1. <after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own>

First Known Use of DRY NURSE

1598

Related to DRY NURSE

Synonyms: babysitter, nurse, nanny (also nannie), nursemaid, nurser, sitter

Related Words: amah, ayah; au pair, bonne; mammy; duenna, fraulein, governess, mademoiselle

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Rhymes with DRY NURSE

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