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wet-nurse
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Noun wet-nurse has 1 sense
- wet-nurse(n = noun.person) amah, wet nurse, wetnurse - a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else; Array is a kind of nanny, nurse, nursemaid
Verb wet-nurse has 1 sense
- wet-nurse(v = verb.consumption) breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle - give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" is one way to feed, give
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