Reverse Dictionary: NURSE

NOUNS
► QUEERACH the act of working in a weak, trifling manner; the act of nursing in an over-dainty manner → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► AMAH a wet-nurse → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► ANGEL a nurse → Brit. sl.
► AYAH a native-born nurse or maidservant, employed esp. by Europeans in India and other parts of South Asia → 1782
► BANK NURSE a nurse who provides temporary cover as a result of staff shortages or short term unfilled vacancies → 1974
► BASTILE-NURSE a workhouse nurse → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANDY-STRIPER a young woman who is a volunteer nurse’s aide → 1963 US sl.
► GAMP a woman resembling Mrs. Gamp; a monthly nurse or sick nurse of a disreputable class (Mrs. Sarah Gamp was a monthly nurse in Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a large cotton umbrella) → 1864
► GHOST OF JOAN a nursing sister → 1915 military usage obs.
► GRANNY a nurse → 1794 US
► KEEPER a nurse; one who has charge of the sick → c1450 obs.
► MAAMIE a wet-nurse → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
► MAD NURSE a nurse attending on insane patients → 1753 colloq.
► MILK-WOMAN a wet nurse → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MINDER a child put out to be nursed → 1865 Eng. dial.
► MISS NIGHTINGALE a nurse → 1976 Amer. dial.
► NEEDLE PUNCHER a doctor or nurse → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NEEDLE PUSHER a doctor or nurse → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NEEDLE QUEEN a doctor or nurse → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NURSE KEEPER a nurse → 1679 US
► PANHANDLER a nurse → 1958 US sl.
► PARABOLANUS a sick-nurse, esp. in infectious cases → 1672
► PILLOW FLOPPER a nurse → 1976 Amer. dial.
► REGULAR GAMP, A a fat old dowdy of a monthly nurse → 1864
► RUBY QUEEN an attractive young female nurse → 1925 services’ sl.
► SUCK-GIVER a wet-nurse → 1551 obs.
► SUCK-NURSE a wet-nurse → c1640 obs.
► VAMPIRE a nurse able to draw blood successfully from ‘touch sticks’, those whose veins are elusive → 1997 medical sl. (Bk.)
► WARD SISTER a British registered nurse who is in charge of a ward of a hospital → 2014 (Bk.)
► WOMEN IN WHITE SHROUDS nurses → 1992 Amer. South  (Bk.)
► YELD NURSE a dry nurse → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)

VERBS
► CANDY-STRIPE to work as a ‘candy-striper’ → 1974 US sl.
► MARDLE UP to coddle, to nurse; to take pains about → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIND to be nursed, to be taken care of → 1875 Eng. dial.
► NESTLE to tend, to nurse → a1548 obs.
► QUEERACH to do any kind of work in a weak, trifling manner; to nurse in an over-dainty manner → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TAKE ABOUT to nurse a dying person and see to the funeral → 1892 Sc.
► TITTLE  to fondle or indulge to excess; to pet, to pamper; to tend carefully, to nurse, to cherish → 1653 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.