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nursemaid

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1. nursemaid - Noun

2. nursemaid - Verb

Meaning

A girl employed to attend children.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Anton du Beke

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. Ilona Andrews

Humez, p. 13. When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan". Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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