nussed

"So-and-so b'longs to our family," she included every man, woman, and child who could produce the genuine patent of our nobility, and especially all who had ever worn our livery, from my great-grandfather's tremendous coachman to the slipshod young gal that "nussed" our last new cousin's last new baby.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

I would hear the old mammies tell of the different ones of the children that they had "nussed," and now they were big soldier boys, and had gone to fight for their country, and in letters these boys would write home there were always messages of love for their "dear old mammy."

How it was : four years among the Rebels, by Mrs. Irby Morgan 1892

"Marse Tom, I nussed you when you was a little baby, en I raised you all by myself tell you was most a young man; en now you is young en rich, en I is po en gitt'n ole, en I come heah b'leavin 'dat you would he'p de ole mammy 'long down de little road dat's lef' twix her en de grave, en --"

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

I nussed 3 white chillun, Lulu, Helen Augusta, and Lola Sims.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

They fired me into a dungeon an 'I took sick, an' would have died only a native gal up an 'nussed me back to health.

Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America Roy Rockwood

'Yas, sar, allers; I nussed him, and den de chil'ren -- all ob' em. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

She nussed de Cunnel; he am jess like her own chile, and I know'd 'twud kill her ef he got hisself enter trubble.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

I nussed two babies -- my mistress 'baby and her sister's baby.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

I nussed yer when yer was a little baby, and I promised ole Missus always to look arter yer.

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

Mistress spoke up right quick and said: 'No you ain't a-goin' to sell Gus, neither, he's nussed and looked after all our oldest chillun, and he's goin 'to stay right here'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration