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Nursemaid

Nursemaid meaning

A woman or girl employed to care for children.

Synonyms of Nursemaid

Example sentences (6)

Mary Holleback has doted on generations of baby sturgeon here like a concerned nursemaid, a role she fell into in 2006.

It is as if she just fades away, only to be mourned through her nursemaid – the one who was most likely responsible for feeding Ya’akov and Esav in their infancy.

Reich’s opus was a fitting apotheosis to the adult who as a child fantasized about having sex with everything from the farm animals to his nursemaid to his mother.

His nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates abroad at his father's expense in the hope that this condition would not be so badly affected.

Humez, p. 13. When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan".

On another occasion the nursemaid was blamed for dropping the baby onto a stone floor, injuring a shoulder that ever afterwards remained a little crooked.