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wet nurse
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As a noun, wet nurse means a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. As a verb, it means give suck to.
Meanings of wet nurse
2 meaningsverb
Give suck to
“The wetnurse suckled the infant”
“You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places”
Similar: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, lactate, give suck
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).