Wet Nurse

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you are a wet nurse, denotes that you will be widowed or have the care of the aged, or little children. For a woman to dream that she is a wet nurse, signifies that she will depend on her own labors for sustenance. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A wet nurse is a woman who nurses a baby not her own. A wet nurse may be employed if the birth mother of a baby is unable to breast feed her baby for a variety of reasons. Some reasons may include use of certain drugs (prescription or illegal), illness or inoperative breasts.

Through the recent widespread availability of infant formula, wet nurses are not very common or needed in developed countries.

Though not widely known in developed countries, a woman who has never been pregnant may produce milk. Through frequent stimulation of the areolae and nipples, a woman may begin lactating and, therefore, be able to nurse. The use of a wet nurse is still a common practice in many developing countries.

Usage note: This phrase should be hyphenated when used as a verb, but not when used in its more basic form as a noun. Thus, "She was a wet nurse. She was wet-nursing Mrs. Smith's baby."

Synonym: Wet Nurse

Synonym: amah (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: wet-nurse (medicine).

Crosswords: Wet Nurse

Specialty definitions using "wet nurse": Wet Nurse. (references)

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Demon Wet Nurse (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Wet Nurse (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Language		Translations for "wet nurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tajë (lathe, nurse, screw), mëndeshë (foster mother). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرضعة, ‏الظئر مرضعة لولد غيرها. (various references)

Bulgarian		кърмя чуждо дете, дойка (amah, foster mother, fosterer, nurse). (various references)

Czech		kojná (nurse). (various references)

Danish		nutrix (nurse), amme (lactate, nurse, suckle). (various references)

Dutch		voedster (breeding doe, nurse, nurse-bee), nutrix, min (affection, diminutive, fewer, less, little, love, minus, small). (various references)

Finnish		imettäjä. (various references)

French		nourrice. (various references)

German		Nutrix, Amme (foster mother, nana, nurse). (various references)

Greek		βυζάστρα, παραμάνα (nanny, nurse, safety pin). (various references)

Hebrew		מינקת (foster mother, nanny). (various references)

Hungarian		szoptatós dajka (foster-nurse, nursing mother, wet-nurse), babusgat (pamper, to cherish, to mollycoddle). (various references)

Indonesian		dayah (foster mother). (various references)

Italian		balia (dry-nurse, monthly nurse, nanny, nurse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		乳母 (nursing mother), 婆や (old housekeeper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おんば (nursing mother), うば (nursing mother), ばあや (old housekeeper), にゅうぼ (nursing mother). (various references)

Manx		boandyr chee, ben chee (woman that gives suck). (various references)

Pig Latin		etway ursenay

Portuguese		nutriz (nurse), amamentar (breastfeed, dry nurse, nurse, suckle), ama-de-leite, ama de leite (nurse). (various references)

Russian		кормилица (foster mother, nurse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dojilja. (various references)

Spanish		nodriza (nurse), ama de leche. (various references)

Swedish		dadda (nanny), amma (breast-feed, nurse, suckle). (various references)

Turkish		sütnine (foster-nurse), süt annelik yapmak, süt anne (foster mother, nursing mother), emzirmek (breastfeed, breast-feed, nurse, put out to nurse, suckle), üstüne titremek (cosset, mollycoddle). (various references)

Ukranian		годівниця (crib, nourice, rack), няньчитися. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Wet Nurse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wetnurse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-s-t-u-w"
	-1 letter: neuters, retunes, tenures, tureens, western.
	-2 letters: ensure, enters, enures, nester, neuter, newest, renest, renews, rentes, resent, resewn, retune, retuse, rewets, strewn, tenser, tenues, tenure, ternes, treens, tuners, tureen, unrest, wester.
	-3 letters: ensue, enter, enure, ernes, ester, ewers, nerts, newer, newts, nurse, reest, renew, rente, rents, reset, resew, reuse, rewet, runes, runts, sente, sewer.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-s-t-u-w"
	+2 letters: unwreathes.
	+3 letters: underwrites, wienerwurst.
	+4 letters: counterviews, southwestern, underweights, underwriters, wienerwursts.
	+5 letters: counterpowers, outwardnesses, thundershower.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 74 4E 75 72 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01001110 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#78 &#117 &#114 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 0074 004E 0075 0072 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57718624887848571

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Synonym: Wet Nurse

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