drynursing

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ

drynursing

1. present participle and gerund of drynurse

drynursing (uncountable)

1. The practice of attending to and feeding a baby without suckling.
2. Looking after as though a baby.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "You see, it's all up to you and me, for this old Summerlee man will want dry-nursin' from the first."