diapering

D2I1A1P3E1R1I1N1G2

noun

The act of clothing somebody in a diaper.

Less commonScrabble 13

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verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of diaper
noundiapering (plural diaperings)

plural diaperings

  1. The act of clothing somebody in a diaper.

    Then the therapist remembered that throughout the early critical period of the treatment, she had observed many diaperings of Billy, but at no time had Kathie shown revulsion toward the baby's feces or cleaning the anal region.

    2012, Paola Mariotti, The Maternal Lineage, page 379
  2. A regular pattern of the same shape, evenly spaced.

    The space between each two spokes is filled in with very elaborate diaperings, in which red and blue alternately prevail[…]

    1861, John Winter Jones, Observations on the origin of the division of man's life into stages

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