nursle

English

Etymology

Alteration of nuzzle, after nurse.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnəːs(ə)l/

Verb

nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)

  1. (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
      the late borne childe [...] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde [...].

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