wet nurse vs wet-nurse

wet nurse and wet-nurse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wet nurse	Yes	No	No	No
wet-nurse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, wet nurse and wet-nurse are synonyms defined as:

wet nurse and wet-nurse: a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

Other synonyms of wet nurse include amah, wetnurse.

wet nurse (noun)	wet-nurse (noun)
a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else	a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

wet nurse (verb)	wet-nurse (verb)
	give suck to