2. Verb. (third-person singular of nursemaid) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nursemaids
1. nursemaid [n] - See also: nursemaid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursemaids
Literary usage of Nursemaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infant Care by Max West (1921)
"nursemaids. It may be well to speak a word of warning as to nursemaids. One has
only to visit the parks of any city on a pleasant day to note the instances ..."
2. The Baganda at Home: With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda by Charles W. Hattersley (1908)
"... Suffragette' Movement—Baganda Servants—Boys as 'nursemaids'—Merits and Defects
of 'Boys'—The High Death-rate—A Vanishing People—Causes—Infant Mortality ..."
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