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nappy table en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnæp.iˌteɪ.bəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From nappy + table.

Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, rare) Synonym of changing table.
   • Although, none of the participants raised concerns around the unavailability of the changing nappy tables in men's public toilet, this is another infrastructural challenge that government should ensure they improve on, in order to support men to be actively involved in child-care activities. 2020, Sizakele Mazibuko, Perceptions and experiences of fathering among Black men who share residence with their children (Dissertation), Faculty of the Humanities, University of Cape Town, page 86:
   • When I was pregnant... it was too much. I asked him to move a nappy table from the living-room to the bedroom. It was too much — I waited months, then I did it myself and you punched me... 2006, Yvonne Roberts, Where Did Our Love Go?, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 197:
   • Desire stabbed me, there with my hands on the nappy table. I couldn't speak. I had to turn my back to him. It was hard to remember how to pin the nappy. I saw that Zoe's eyes were drowsed with milk, so I stumbled out of the room and put her back in her cot. When I came back, Steve was lying on the bed, on Ernie's side. I wasn’t quite sure what to do. So I lay beside him. It seemed familyish. 1996, Sue Woolfe, “Ghosts”, in Debra Adelaide, editor, Motherlove: Stories About Birth, Babies and Beyond, Adelaide: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 157:
   • One day my mum was changing my nappy and my sister got in a fight so she had to leave the room and I managed to get off the nappy table, walk through the house butt naked, found the dog, left the property, and they found me walking down the beach holding the dog's collar. 2021 February 27, Martha Brennan, “Thalia Heffernan: I never thought I'd have the confidence to model”, in Irish Examiner, Blackpool, Cork:
   • Others were suggested by friends as places that they love. We have noted what childcare facilities are provided in each case: pushchair accessibility, high chairs, nappy tables etc., but haven't selected places purely on this basis. 1997, Janet Bonthron, Heinz Guide to Days Out with Kids, 1 edition, London: Bon Bon Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

Forms

Synonyms

changing table · diaper table