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nurse a drink
nurse a drink
Consume a drink slowly, especially in order to conserve it. For example, He nursed one drink for the whole evening. This idiom alludes to holding a glass very carefully, as one might a child. [c. 1940]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Arber | | ['a:rbə] | |
Lockie | | LAHK-ee | Scottish |
Delbert | | DEL-bərt | English |
Jayesh | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati |
Silas | | SIE-ləs (English) | English, Greek, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |
SİMge | | - | Turkish |