Wet Nurse

Word WET NURSE
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Definitions and meanings of "Wet Nurse"

What do we mean by wet nurse?

To serve as wet nurse for. transitive verb

To treat with excessive care. transitive verb

Alternative spelling of wet nurse. noun

A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.

(by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.

Someone who breastfeeds a baby when its mother cannot. Urban Dictionary

To take extra special care of someone sick or injured and also drunk. Even though the name sounds suggestive is not something inherently sexual. Urban Dictionary

Alcoholic drink comprising of Bourbon and Milk, only suitable in the event of a lack of coke/pepsi for a regular bourbon & cola Urban Dictionary

A movement that seeks to promote and make legal the occupation of being an adult wet nurse. That is a woman let's adults suck milk out of her tit. This is sometimes done among teen MILFs and in some bars you can go in and order a " Milk Mamma" and some woman will come out and let you suck the milk out of her tit. Urban Dictionary

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The word "wet-nurse" in example sentences

CNN, how about you just report the news, and don't play wet-nurse for a bunch of loser Republicans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Olympiodorus refers to Elpidia as a trophos, which usually indicates a wet-nurse, like the Latin nutrix. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

At his ‘earling’ upon the lake, the baby Titus casts away those ancient symbols of his office into the water and reaches out towards the orphaned daughter of his wet-nurse Keda, his foster sister who will become the feral child ‘The Thing’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What's 'appened t' me since I made the mistake o 'temporarily comin' out o 'the gutter is that I was stuck as wet-nurse t' the lad, and now I've got meself sort o 'swept along a course I can't change or swim out of. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An ancient biography of Tiberius notes that Livia herself employed a wet-nurse, or nutrix, to look after her son, one of the very few glimpses we have of this period of her life.23 Yet it is important, for it plugs directly into Roman thinking about the ideal woman, a yardstick against which Livia and her successors as Roman first lady would be judged. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

And if you was to wet-nurse him, why did he have you galloping your arse off all day? ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Incidentally, we have learned that there were women in the sect whose permanent or temporary profession was that of wet-nurse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The halakhah evidently means that in order for the child not to become contaminated by its mother, she must give it to a wet-nurse who will nurse him while she is impure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These servants, especially the wet-nurses, were usually hired by Jewish men, who secured the terms of employment with the husband or family of the servant or wet-nurse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The wet-nurse "also has the propensity to derange the order of the nursery" so care must be taken to assign her place and duties whilst not looking on her as a "living dairy". ❋ Unknown (2007)

An accident had prevented her mother from breast-feeding her, and a lady in Bartres, Marie Lagues, who had just lost a baby, agreed to wet-nurse St Bernadette. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Simson, the first in the race, carried as a prize the situation of sick-nurse beside the delicate patient; that Peg Thomson was permitted the privilege of recommending her good-daughter, Bet Jamieson, to be wet-nurse; and an oe, or grandchild, of Luckie Jaup was hired to assist in the increased drudgery of the family; the Doctor thus, like a practised minister, dividing among his trusty adherents such good things as fortune placed at his disposal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is also Makrooh to entrust the child to a wet-nurse who has given birth to an illegitimate child. ❋ As'ad (2008)

It is recommended that the wet-nurse, whose services are obtained for a child, should be Shia Ithna-Asheri, sane, chaste, and good looking; and it is Makrooh undesired for a wet-nurse to be a non-Shia Ithna-Asheri or ugly, ill-humoured or illegitimate. ❋ As'ad (2008)

In the 1860s, when the treatment of the disease was still a subject of much speculation, The Medical Times and Gazette, explored the possibility of the communication of syphilis from a wet-nurse to an infant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sydney Godolphin Osborne when he said he did "not know which to rate highest, the cruelty or the immorality to which the wet-nurse system offers so liberal a premium." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had a masectomy so [my sister] [wet] nursed [little Johnny]. ❋ Lokix (2005)

I got [tore up from the floor up] on [Fundador] and Rose wet nursed me all [through the night]. ❋ Ryo Ohki (2005)

[i ran] out of [coke] for my [bourbon], so i made a Tenessee Wet Nurse instead, damn that shit was so good ❋ Cobymorvfail (2010)

[Support] the [adult wet nurse movement]. ❋ Judge Dredd7 (2011)

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