Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of drynurse
noundrynursing (uncountable)
- uncountableThe practice of attending to and feeding a baby without suckling.
- uncountableLooking after as though a baby.
"You see, it's all up to you and me, for this old Summerlee man will want dry-nursin' from the first."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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drynursing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drynursing
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