Meanings
plural diaperfuls
- Enough to fill a diaper.
Description of liquid waste produced today: Two diaperfuls, dark yellow.
2011, The Iowa Review2 more examples
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 54Subtract 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, →ISBNSynonyms: nappyful
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEnough to fill a diaper.
Origin
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