nursemaid
Speech parts
1. nursemaid - Noun
2. nursemaid - Verb
Meaning
A girl employed to attend children.
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So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.
Humez, p. 13. When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan".
His nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates abroad at his father's expense in the hope that this condition would not be so badly affected.
On another occasion the nursemaid was blamed for dropping the baby onto a stone floor, injuring a shoulder that ever afterwards remained a little crooked.