Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, dated)A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.

Origin

Earliest written mention appears c. 1942 in The Lancet.

Earliest written mention appears c. 1942 in The Lancet.

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Forms

plural: nit nurses
Singularnit nurse
Pluralnit nurses

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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