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wet nurse
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wet nurse has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
wet nurse,
A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
wet nurse
aliment, amah, ayah, breast-feed, care for, cherish, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dry nurse, dry-nurse, fatten, fatten up, feed, fondle, force-feed, foster, lactate, lavish care on, mammy, mother, nanny, nourish, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid, nurture, nutrify, pamper, sitter, spoon-feed, stuff, suckle, sustain
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