Definition of Nursemaids

1. Noun. (plural of nursemaid) ¹

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

nurse midwives
nurse practitioner
nurse practitioners
nurse shark
nurse sharks
nursed
nursehound
nursehounds
nurseless
nurselike
nurseling
nursemaid
nursemaid's elbow
nursemaided
nursemaiding
nursemaids (current term)
nursepond
nurseponds
nurser
nurseries
nursers
nursery
nursery rhyme
nursery rhymes
nursery school
nursery schools
nursery web spider
nursery web spiders
nurserymaid
nurserymaids

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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