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[ UK /nˈɜːsme‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman who is the custodian of children

How To Use nursemaid In A Sentence

  • Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
  • The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
  • His family have nursemaided him over the last few days.
  • But the Barkindji, whose forebears were once permitted in town only as servants and nursemaids, or who worked as stockmen in the outer regions, now own the public spaces. Travel: Dickens down under
  • By the age of four or five, children become nursemaids.
  • We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it. Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
  • Consequently, the black mother, normally a domestic or nursemaid , was the family provider by default.
  • He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest. Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas
  • Leopold had a sister Dora who was four years older than he was, and the other member of the household was Aleathea Starling who not only was nursemaid to the two young children but also looked after the family home.
  • Then she looked the young nursemaid straight in the eye.
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