wet-nurse in English

noun

1

a woman employed to suckle another woman's child.

The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.

verb

1

act as a wet nurse to.

They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.

noun

amah, wet nurse, wetnurse

verb

lactate, breastfeed, suck, suckle, give suck, nurse

noun

amah, wet nurse, wet-nurse

noun

amah, wet-nurse, wetnurse

Use "wet-nurse" in a sentence

1. 6 synonyms for Breastfeed: give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, suckle, nurse, suck

2. Find me every wet nurse, lactating hooker... and mammary on tap in the city.

3. Amah (plural Amahs) In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse

4. I fed her at my own breast even though they told me to give her to the wet nurse.

5. During most of the sixteenth century, condemnation of women who employed a wet-nurse to suckle their babies was minimal.

6. Amah Meaning: "wet-nurse," 1839, Anglo-Indian, from Portuguese ama "nurse," from Medieval Latin amma "mother," from… See definitions of Amah.

7. Descriptions of clothing (waistcoats, bodices, and Bagwigs), food (veal and mutton pies), money, (schillings and half crowns) and practices (a wet nurse who makes the rounds ) all add verisimilitude

8. (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese originCompare ayah Word Origin for Amah C19: from Portuguese ama nurse, wet nurse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & …

9. As for the hiring of Moses’ mother as a wet nurse, The Anchor Bible Dictionary says: “The payment of Moses’ natural mother to nurse him . . . echoes identical arrangements in Mesopotamian adoption contracts.”

10. After his birth, Edward was looked after by a wet nurse called Mariota or Mary Maunsel for a few months until she fell ill, when Alice de Leygrave became his foster mother.