Meanings
plural nappyfuls
- Enough to fill a nappy.
And then, as the final zip on the snow suit goes up, the ghastly smell of yet another nappyful rising to meet me.
1999, Ann Morris, The Adoption Experience: Families Who Give Children a Second Chance, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN2 more examples
Regularity can be pretty erratic too: breastfed babies will usually produce several nappyfuls a day, but they sometimes go for several days or more without doing a poo at all, without it causing a problem.
2012, Hollie Smith, “Basic babycare”, in First-Time Mum: Surviving and Enjoying Your Baby’s First Year, White Ladder, →ISBNDarius ignored the strewn magazines, as though they were a friend’s baby sitting bang in the middle of the lounge in a nappyful of shit.
2012, Zinaid Meeran, Tanuki Ichiban, Jacana Media, →ISBN, pages 65–66Synonyms: diaperful
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEnough to fill a nappy.
Origin
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