Definition of "wet-nurse" []

• To serve as wet nurse for. (verb-transitive)
• To treat with excessive care. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts."
• "CNN, how about you just report the news, and don't play wet-nurse for a bunch of loser Republicans."
• "An ancient biography of Tiberius notes that Livia herself employed a wet-nurse, or nutrix, to look after her son, one of the very few glimpses we have of this period of her life.23 Yet it is important, for it plugs directly into Roman thinking about the ideal woman, a yardstick against which Livia and her successors as Roman first lady would be judged."