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Date "wet-nurse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonyms: Wet-nurseSynonyms: breastfeed (v), give suck (v), lactate (v), nurse (v), suck (v), suckle (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: wet nurse (medicine). |
| Antonym: bottlefeed (v). (additional references) |
| "Wet-nurse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wet-nurse" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "wet-nurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 湿护理. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szoptatós dajka (foster-nurse, nursing mother, wet nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 젖 간호하십시요. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | et-nurseway нянчиться (coddle, play wet-nurse). (various references) vú nuôi, vú em (nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ummeda. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various 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 2D 6E 75 72 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01110100 00101101 01101110 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e t - n u r s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 0074 002D 006E 0075 0072 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577186158087848571 |
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