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nursemaid

noun as in nanny

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Agnes’ mother never bonded with her daughter and showed her little attention except to object to her daughter’s clear intelligence and closeness with her nursemaid.

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They took her to the children’s emergency department down the road from their home in the Bay Area, where she was diagnosed with “nursemaid’s elbow” or, more technically, a “radial head subluxation.”

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She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

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Frances left school to work as a seamstress and nursemaid for a white Baltimore family that owned a bookshop.

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“Not play nursemaid to thousands and thousands of illegals. He would rather have them do their job, which is stopping them at the border.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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