diaper
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A toddler wearing a diaper.
English
Etymology
From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, adj), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)pɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: di‧a‧per, dia‧per
- Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ), -aɪəpə(ɹ)
Noun
diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)
- (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
- A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
- A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Let one attend him with a silver basin, […] / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.
- The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
- Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- all-in-one diaper
- all-in-two diaper
- chin diaper
- cloth diaper
- diaper-baby
- diaper bag
- diaper bucket
- diaper cake
- diaper changer
- diaper cover
- diaper deck
- diaperhead
- diaperhood
- diaper insert
- diaperism
- diaper lover
- diaper pail
- diaper pin
- diaper rash
- diaper sniper
- diaper stuffing
- diaperwork
- diaper wrap
- face diaper
- fitted diaper
- hybrid diaper
- incontinence diaper
- Israeli Diaper Forces
- meat diaper
- paper diaper
- pocket diaper
- red-diaper baby
- red diaper baby
- stuffable diaper
- swim diaper
- washable diaper
Translations
absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent
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Verb
diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)
- To put diapers on someone.
- 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles:
- I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]
- Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
- To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
- If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
Translations
To put diapers on someone
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dyapre.
Noun
diaper
- Alternative form of dyaper
Etymology 2
From Old French diaprer.
Verb
diaper
- Alternative form of dyapren