nursemaid

From nurse +‎ maid.

• Audio (US):

  (file)

nursemaid (plural nursemaids)

1. A woman or girl employed to care for children.

• nanny
• nurserymaid

• nurseman

• au pair

nursemaid (third-person singular simple present nursemaids, present participle nursemaiding, simple past and past participle nursemaided)

1. To tend to as a nursemaid.
2. (colloquial) To care for or look after.

   I don't believe I have to nursemaid these two rookies through their entire probationary period.

   • 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 14, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 120:

     ‘Make the most of it,’ said Ford. ‘Because what I want you to do is to nursemaid that package out of the building.

• muraenids