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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who suckles another woman's child.
- noun One who treats another with excessive care or solicitude.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman employed to suckle the infant of another.
- To act as a wet-nurse to; suckle.
- Hence To coddle as a wet-nurse does: treat with the tenderness shown to an infant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf.
dry nurse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman hired tosuckle another woman'schild . - noun figuratively, by extension Someone who treats someone else with
excessive care . - verb transitive To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- noun a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- verb give suck to
- noun a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
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