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nursy

nursy is the alternative spelling of nursie.

Meaning of nursie

Noun

nursie (plural nursies)

  1. (childish, mainly, term-of-address) A nurse.
    • “Bravo, Nursie!” cried Marway. “There ain't a flunkey of you all could do it better!” Clare said nothing, finished the job, and stood up.1891, George MacDonald, A Rough Shaking

Forms of nursy

pluralnursies

Origin of nursy

From nurse + -y.

Questions about nursy

What is nursy the alternative spelling of?
Nursy is the alternative spelling of nursie.

Words near nursy in the dictionary

  1. nurslings
  2. nurst
  3. nurstle
  4. nurstled
  5. nurstling
  6. nursy
  7. nurturable
  8. nurtural
  9. nurturally
  10. nurturance
  11. nurturances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nursy (page history and authors); nursie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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