nursemaid

English

Etymology

From nurse +‎ maid.

Noun

nursemaid (plural nursemaids)

1. A woman or girl employed to care for children.

Synonyms

• nanny
• nurserymaid

Coordinate terms

• nurseman

Translations

child's nurse

• Armenian: դայակ (hy) (dayak)
• Bulgarian: бавачка (bg) f (bavačka)
• Dutch: kindermeisje (nl) n
• Esperanto: vanjo (eo)
• Finnish: lastenhoitaja (fi)
• French: nounou (fr) f, nourrice (fr) f, bonne d’enfants (fr) f
• Greek: νταντά (el) f (ntantá)
• Italian: bambinaia (it) f, babysitter (it), tata (it) f
• Latvian: aukle (lv) f
• Macedonian: дадилка (mk) f (dadilka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnepike (no) m, barnepasser m

• Portuguese: babá (pt) f
• Russian: ня́ня (ru) f (njánja)
• Serbo-Croatian: sluškinja (sh)
• Spanish: niñera (es) f, nana (es) f (Latin America)
• Swedish: barnflicka (sv) c, barnpassare
• Volapük: cilikälädan m or f, cilijikälädan f

See also

• au pair

Verb

nursemaid (third-person singular simple present nursemaids, present participle nursemaiding, simple past and past participle nursemaided)

1. To tend to as a nursemaid.
2. (colloquial) To care for or look after.

   I don't believe I have to nursemaid these two rookies through their entire probationary period.

   • 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 14, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 120:

     ‘Make the most of it,’ said Ford. ‘Because what I want you to do is to nursemaid that package out of the building.

Anagrams

• muraenids