Home › Words › N › nursegirlnursegirlnursegirl means A young woman employed to look after a baby or young child.EtymologyFrom nurse + girl.nounA young woman employed to look after a baby or young child.e.g.“The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.” — 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:A young woman who help to take care of the sick or infirm.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).