diaperee

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noun

One who wears a diaper.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noundiaperee (plural diaperees)

plural diaperees

  1. colloquialrareOne who wears a diaper.

    It is pretty hard to make a mistake when diapering a baby. About the only way a person can go wrong is to put the diaper on backward, a condition that neither the diaperer nor the diaperee is likely to notice.

    1988 March 13, Delia Ephron, “In This Year's Movies, Baby Knows Best”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2024
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    By the time dads of yore learned to gauge just how much pressure was needed to push the business end of the safety pin through the layers of cloth without getting too much thumb, the diaperee was usually potty-trained.

    1995, Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, What Your Parents Never Told You About Being a Mom or Dad, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, pages 19–20

    This game was as ridiculous as the last. Two team members were supposed to make a diaper on the third teammate out of toilet paper. Jill had insisted that Ty be the diaperee. Since he was wearing pants, she'd thought it would be the least embarrassing. Now she wasn't so sure.

    2016, Debbie Mason, Happy Ever After in Christmas, Forever, →ISBN, page 104

    Early on in the lives of the rising generation family members, the kids are the diaperees, and their parents are the diaperers. At the other end of the escalator, a role reversal naturally occurs. Hopefully, the former diaperees will be able to pay someone else to become their parents' diaperers, but I think you get my drift.

    2023 May 5, Steve Legler, “The "Bookends" View of Family Life”, in Family Legacy Guide, archived from the original on 29 May 2023

Origin

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APA

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“diaperee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diaperee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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