childsitter
childsitter noun: synonym of babysitter.
Noun
childsitter (plural childsitters)
- Synonym of babysitter.
- [I]n return for shouldering a few extra duties (watchdog, childsitter, sled dog, juvenile circus performer, losthamster retriever, plus the full-time summer job of bear-scare on mushrooming expeditions), he may hunt for his own amusement, without let or hindrance, throughout the year until...1964, Sheila Burnford, “Canadian Spring”, in The Fields of Noon, Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 11
- With a live-in housekeeper-cook-childsitter we were able to lead a busy social life.1992, William G[eorge] Cahan, “The Flora Sign”, in No Stranger to Tears: A Surgeon’s Story, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, section “Operation (Phase II)”, page 140
- Synonyms:
- babysitter
Synonyms of childsitter
Forms of childsitter
| plural | childsitters |
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Origin of childsitter
From child + sitter, after babysitter.
Questions about childsitter
- What does childsitter mean?
- Childsitter means synonym of babysitter.
- What part of speech is childsitter?
- Childsitter is a noun.
- What is the plural of childsitter?
- The plural of childsitter is childsitters.
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