English Explanatory Dictionary

nit nurse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.

Word forms

nit nurse nit nurses

Etymology

Earliest written mention appears c. 1942 in The Lancet.

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