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Definition: Dry-nurse |
Dry-nurseVerb1. Take care of an infant without breastfeeding it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dry-nurse When a superior officer does not know his duty, and is instructed in it by an inferior officer, he is said to be dry-nursed. The inferior nurses the superior, as a dry-nurse rears an infant. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dry-nurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | baker (monthly, monthly nurse, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | baker (monthly nurse, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | vindistino (monthly nurse, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | balia (monthly nurse, nanny, nurse, wet nurse), asciutta (monthly nurse, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | y-nursedray embalar nos braços (nurse), cuidar de crianças, ama-seca (nanny, nursery governess), amamentar (breastfeed, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse), ama sêca (nanny), alimentar com leite. (various references) comadrona (midwife, monthly nurse, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amassai, assae, assas. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-r-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: nursery. | |
-2 letters: dryers, nursed, nurser, reruns, senryu, sunder, sundry, surrey. | |
-3 letters: derry, druse, dryer, dunes, dures, durns, durrs, dyers, dynes, nerds, nerdy, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse, redry, rends, rerun, ruder, ruers, runes, rynds, serry, surer, syren, under. | |
-4 letters: dens, deny, deys, drys, dues, dune, duns, dure, durn, durr, dyer, dyes, dyne, ends, erns, errs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-r-r-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: understory. | |
+4 letters: horrendously, unreservedly. | |
+5 letters: interindustry. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Translations: Ancient 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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