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diaperful en · NOUN

Etymology

From diaper + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Enough to fill a diaper.
    • Description of liquid waste produced today: Two diaperfuls, dark yellow. 2011, The Iowa Review:
    • Subtract the second figure from the first and you’ve got your young’un’s weight, give or take a diaperful. 1997, Annie Smith, Glen-Bob Smith, “Weighing Kids on Stone Scales”, in The Redneck Guide To Raisin’ Children, →ISBN:
    • His father is a scowling guinea pig with a moustache, his mother is a little monkey in a floral hat, and he is nothing on earth pinned up in a diaperful of egested maternal milk. 1950, Gerald Kersh, The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small, page 54:

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Synonyms

nappyful