wet nurse

Inflections of 'wet nurse' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
wet nurse n	(woman hired to breastfeed another's child)	nodriza nf
		ama de leche loc nom f
	It was quite common for noblewomen to hire a wet nurse.
	Era bastante común que las mujeres de la nobleza contrataran a una nodriza.

Additional Translations
Inglés		Español
wet-nurse [sb]⇒ vtr	(act as wet nurse to)	hacer de nodriza de loc verb + prep
	A young woman was hired to wet-nurse the wealthy couple's newborn.
wet-nurse [sb] vtr	disapproving (give excessive care to)	cuidar en exceso a loc verb
		cuidar demasiado a loc verb
	You should stop wet-nursing Ross; he'll be going to university in six months, so it's time he learned to stand on his own two feet.

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