dry nurse

See also: drynurse and dry-nurse

English

Etymology

To distinguish from a wet nurse, who suckles a baby.

Noun

dry nurse (plural dry nurses)

(chiefly historical) A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand

Translations

a nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand

Irish: banaltra f, cailín páistí m
Portuguese: ama-seca (pt) f
Scottish Gaelic: muime-altram f
Slovene: pestunja (sl) f

References

“dry nurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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