diaperful
English
Etymology
From diaper + -ful.
Noun
diaperful (plural diaperfuls)
- Enough to fill a diaper.
- 1950, Gerald Kersh, The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small, page 54:
- 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.
- 1997, Annie Smith; Glen-Bob Smith, “Weighing Kids on Stone Scales”, in The Redneck Guide To Raisin’ Children, →ISBN:
- Subtract the second figure from the first and you’ve got your young’un’s weight, give or take a diaperful.
- 2011, The Iowa Review:
- Description of liquid waste produced today: Two diaperfuls, dark yellow.
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Synonyms
- nappyful