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Wet-nurse

Date "wet-nurse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Synonyms: Wet-nurse

Synonyms: 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)

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Usage Frequency: Wet-nurse

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wet-nurse

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

   

Russian 

  

нянчиться (coddle, play wet-nurse). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vú nuôi, vú em (nurse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wet-nurse

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ummeda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Wet-nurse

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wet-nurse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 74 2D 6E 75 72 73 65

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

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

01010111 01100101 01110100 00101101 01101110 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#116 &#45 &#110 &#117 &#114 &#115 &#101

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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