dry nurse

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   a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant

   Broadernanny

Questions about dry nurse

What does dry nurse mean?

dry nurse means "a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant".

Is dry nurse a common word?

dry nurse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.