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dry-nurse

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. dry-nurse (verb)
  2. dry nurse (noun)

dry–nurse

verb

Definition of DRY-NURSE

transitive verb
1
: to act as dry nurse to
2
: to give unnecessary supervision to

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