Thesaurus / wet nurse
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synonyms for wet nurse
- assistant
- attendant
- medic
- registered nurse
- therapist
- caretaker
- minder
- RN
- sitter
- baby sitter
- foster parent
- nurse practitioner
- practical nurse
- cradle
- feed
- nourish
- dry-nurse
- lactate
- nurture
- suck
- suckle
- wet-nurse
- bottle-feed
- breast-feed
- give suck
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How to use wet nurse in a sentence
There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINHe turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERAnd sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYJean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKETurn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSA small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHere he can inspect what he sees, say the reflection of the face of his mother or nurse, and compare it at once with the original.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYThe farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSFor God's sake write and persuade him to go to Davos at once—and picture the delights of a pretty and devoted nurse.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONNo; they shall stay at home, and never learn anything, sooner than go and get wet.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO WET NURSE
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.