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  • noun childish nurse

Etymologies

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nurse +‎ -ie

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Examples

  • Joan won't call nursie silly; sure you won't, lovey?

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • A young lady, prettily dressed and pleasant to look at, recited a poem about a certain "nursie" who in the course of her professional duties tended one "Percy."

    A Padre in France George A. Birmingham 1907

  • "'If you don't age some,' I says to Peewee, 'nursie'll come around here,' n 'put a nice fresh panty-waist on you!'

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

  • So glad your back nursie, missed your generous comments

    Happy Walpurgis Night « Jahsonic 2008

  • I'm as miserable as he is, and right now he's trying to get into my shirt for a nursie.

    When Blessings Are Curses 2008

  • She wanted her bottle and that was also a nursie no go until it was all over.

    Shots, Shots, Shots... Zombie Mom 2007

  • I just want to talk to your Uncle Parth here about what it takes to find a cushy job like what he's found for himself, nursie-maiding for old Colonel Burvelle. '

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • She cuts the crusts off his sandwiches, she puts his THE LITTLE RED KING nursie-school drawings on the fridge with magnets that look like little plastic fruits, she calls him 'Bama and that's a special name to him

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • In the afternoon when he gets home from nursie-school (by the time he's old enough to know it's actually nursery school he will be out of it) he watches Million Dollar Movie in his room.

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • Maybe marrying an obsequious wee nursie somewhere along the line to bear a couple of baby doctors to play with and be proud of when distraction was called for.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

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