wet nurse


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wet nurse
noun chiefly historical a woman employed to suckle another woman's child. verb (wet-nurse) act as a wet nurse to.

informal look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant.

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