drynursing
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Verb
[edit]drynursing
- present participle and gerund of drynurse
Noun
[edit]drynursing (uncountable)
- The practice of attending to and feeding a baby without suckling.
- Looking after as though a baby.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "You see, it's all up to you and me, for this old Summerlee man will want dry-nursin' from the first."