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nounPlural nappies ˈnapiˈnæpi British A piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces. 〈英〉尿布 he is busy making bottles and changing dirty nappies North American term diaper Example sentencesExamples - It was when changing my daughter's nappy (Oh yes, I'm a modern man) that I suddenly realised the best way to get good service in a restaurant.
- A bigger pack of 54 was on sale for £8.96, or 16.6p per nappy.
- One witness was changing his child's nappy shortly before midnight when he looked up through a skylight and saw a huge fireball in the sky.
- Dirty nappies and food-stained clothes were changed immediately.
- A disposable nappy is a fast solution when you need to change your child in the back of the car.
- Dress your baby in a nappy, vest and Babygro for sleeping.
- Also for hygiene and ventilation reasons we have nappy changing area in the toilets.
- Disposable nappies from one baby make up half the rubbish of a normal family - that equates to more than four per cent of the district's waste.
- How can one 2.5 year old create so much mess in one nappy?
- Between 1990 and 1996 he changed about 2,000 nappies, both disposable and reusable.
- At the same time, we would advise people of the benefits of using towelling nappies for the environment.
- Feminists are also on his case, reminding him about all those glowing family photographs and public eulogies to nappy-changing.
- Back in 1991 the company commissioned two studies to compare the ecological costs of reusable versus disposable nappies.
- Having read all the right books about childhood development, the Professor displayed not the slightest dismay as he quietly drained the tub and got the little chap into a nice, fresh nappy.
- All you ever wear is a kukoi, a sort of gown-up's nappy.
- In the West, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.
- Consider the cost of 36 nappy changes a day, 24 feeds, five tubs of baby formula and four and a half boxes of rusks per week.
- Legal proceedings are being taken against an airline which threw a man off a plane for allegedly pushing a hostess after changing his daughter's nappy.
- Parents who care about the environment are to be persuaded to return to using washable nappies instead of modern disposable ones.
- His mind was still wandering from thinking about what being a dad is going to be like, the dirty nappies, baby sick the works.
- Here you'll find such a nappy alarm which involves clamping a sensor onto the baby's nappy.
- They were probably hoping for some packs of disposable nappies, baby lotion, and maybe a buggy, or a pram or something.
- One baby's disposable nappies can fill 40 bin liners, or 12 wheelie bins each year.
- Annual sales of three billion disposables makes the UK market worth an estimated £1.2 billion, on the basis of a retail price of 40p per nappy.
- Whether this is down to them all recently becoming fathers is unclear, but those dirty nappies and sleepless nights won't have helped their mood.
- One of the big things is getting out and showing people their image of a traditional, old-fashioned nappy is wrong - there are lots of choices.
- I now have greater respect for the women of yesteryear who didn't use disposable nappies but the towelling ones.
- The project aims to get parents to use reusable nappies on their babies rather than disposable nappies.
- Disposable nappies were the product of years of research investment by multinational companies keen to capture and expand a lucrative market.
- At this moment, there was a mighty smell accompanied by an appropriate noise from Ben's nappy.
- He was attacked after the class nanny stepped out of the room to change another baby's nappy.
- Bring the bottom edge of the nappy up between your baby's legs.
- As if all that were not enough, new scientific research is beginning to throw up other potential hazards with disposable nappies.
- Unless I'm mistaken, and a ‘fund manager’ is actually some kind of teddy bear or brand of nappy, junior, I think, will live through the day without one.
- Around 90 per cent of babies born in the UK every year wear disposable nappies with only a minority using the reusable variety.
- You will have huge embarrassment value in later life showing your daughter's first boyfriend her as a baby with no nappy!
- Instantly they were flooded with offers from firms selling disposable nappies, baby food, layettes and cots.
- It was a brilliant way to show young teenagers and young adults what it's like to get up at 2 am in the morning to feed a baby, to change a dirty nappy, to try and comfort a crying baby.
- Find spare nappy, shorts and a carrier bag to put wet clothes in.
- The ammonia produced by stale urine can make the skin under and around a baby's nappy very sore and red, with red spots, blisters and broken skin.
Synonyms North American diaper British dated napkin Scottish & Northern English hippen
Origin1920s: abbreviation of napkin. Rhymescrappie, flappy, gappy, happi, happy, pappy, sappy, scrappy, slap-happy, snappy, strappy, tapis, yappy, zappy adjectivenappier, nappiest ˈnapiˈnæpi US informal (of hair) frizzy (typically used with reference to black people) I became proud of my thick, nappy hair Example sentencesExamples - There I was with my West Indian accent, dark skin and nappy hair - before locks and the new African-American identity, mind you.
- I decided that no matter how much I try to manipulate my hair to be bone straight or wet and curly, the truth of the matter is my hair is nappy.
- I think I look fine even though I am over weight, have nappy hair, and seem a bit grouchy, as you would if you were a freak having to put up with normal people.
- Look at grandma - she's got nappy hair, big lips, a wide nose, high cheek bones.
- There were no sequined costumes or crèmed down nappy hair for the performers here.
- These were the dark-skinned folk with nappy hair.
- Well, let me take my nappy hair and get out of here.
- ‘She just wanted to know what nappy hair felt like,’ my mom complained all the way home.
- He got up and sighed, sweeping his hand through his nappy grey brown hair, his usual habit.
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense 'shaggy'): from Middle Dutch noppigh, Middle Low German noppich, from noppe (see nap2). The current sense dates from the early 20th century. nounˈnapēˈnæpi British A piece of absorbent material wrapped around a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and feces; a diaper. 〈英〉尿布 he is busy making bottles and changing dirty nappies Example sentencesExamples - As if all that were not enough, new scientific research is beginning to throw up other potential hazards with disposable nappies.
- They were probably hoping for some packs of disposable nappies, baby lotion, and maybe a buggy, or a pram or something.
- Disposable nappies were the product of years of research investment by multinational companies keen to capture and expand a lucrative market.
- Bring the bottom edge of the nappy up between your baby's legs.
- Dress your baby in a nappy, vest and Babygro for sleeping.
- A bigger pack of 54 was on sale for £8.96, or 16.6p per nappy.
- I now have greater respect for the women of yesteryear who didn't use disposable nappies but the towelling ones.
- He was attacked after the class nanny stepped out of the room to change another baby's nappy.
- Legal proceedings are being taken against an airline which threw a man off a plane for allegedly pushing a hostess after changing his daughter's nappy.
- Whether this is down to them all recently becoming fathers is unclear, but those dirty nappies and sleepless nights won't have helped their mood.
- It was a brilliant way to show young teenagers and young adults what it's like to get up at 2 am in the morning to feed a baby, to change a dirty nappy, to try and comfort a crying baby.
- Annual sales of three billion disposables makes the UK market worth an estimated £1.2 billion, on the basis of a retail price of 40p per nappy.
- At the same time, we would advise people of the benefits of using towelling nappies for the environment.
- Find spare nappy, shorts and a carrier bag to put wet clothes in.
- Dirty nappies and food-stained clothes were changed immediately.
- The ammonia produced by stale urine can make the skin under and around a baby's nappy very sore and red, with red spots, blisters and broken skin.
- Having read all the right books about childhood development, the Professor displayed not the slightest dismay as he quietly drained the tub and got the little chap into a nice, fresh nappy.
- All you ever wear is a kukoi, a sort of gown-up's nappy.
- Around 90 per cent of babies born in the UK every year wear disposable nappies with only a minority using the reusable variety.
- One of the big things is getting out and showing people their image of a traditional, old-fashioned nappy is wrong - there are lots of choices.
- His mind was still wandering from thinking about what being a dad is going to be like, the dirty nappies, baby sick the works.
- One witness was changing his child's nappy shortly before midnight when he looked up through a skylight and saw a huge fireball in the sky.
- A disposable nappy is a fast solution when you need to change your child in the back of the car.
- In the West, however, babies wear nappies or diapers until they learn to use a pot.
- Unless I'm mistaken, and a ‘fund manager’ is actually some kind of teddy bear or brand of nappy, junior, I think, will live through the day without one.
- You will have huge embarrassment value in later life showing your daughter's first boyfriend her as a baby with no nappy!
- Also for hygiene and ventilation reasons we have nappy changing area in the toilets.
- The project aims to get parents to use reusable nappies on their babies rather than disposable nappies.
- How can one 2.5 year old create so much mess in one nappy?
- Parents who care about the environment are to be persuaded to return to using washable nappies instead of modern disposable ones.
- One baby's disposable nappies can fill 40 bin liners, or 12 wheelie bins each year.
- Feminists are also on his case, reminding him about all those glowing family photographs and public eulogies to nappy-changing.
- Here you'll find such a nappy alarm which involves clamping a sensor onto the baby's nappy.
- At this moment, there was a mighty smell accompanied by an appropriate noise from Ben's nappy.
- Disposable nappies from one baby make up half the rubbish of a normal family - that equates to more than four per cent of the district's waste.
- Between 1990 and 1996 he changed about 2,000 nappies, both disposable and reusable.
- Instantly they were flooded with offers from firms selling disposable nappies, baby food, layettes and cots.
- Consider the cost of 36 nappy changes a day, 24 feeds, five tubs of baby formula and four and a half boxes of rusks per week.
- Back in 1991 the company commissioned two studies to compare the ecological costs of reusable versus disposable nappies.
- It was when changing my daughter's nappy (Oh yes, I'm a modern man) that I suddenly realised the best way to get good service in a restaurant.
Origin1920s: abbreviation of napkin. adjectiveˈnæpiˈnapē US informal (of hair) frizzy (typically used with reference to black people) I became proud of my thick, nappy hair Example sentencesExamples - I decided that no matter how much I try to manipulate my hair to be bone straight or wet and curly, the truth of the matter is my hair is nappy.
- There were no sequined costumes or crèmed down nappy hair for the performers here.
- He got up and sighed, sweeping his hand through his nappy grey brown hair, his usual habit.
- ‘She just wanted to know what nappy hair felt like,’ my mom complained all the way home.
- Well, let me take my nappy hair and get out of here.
- These were the dark-skinned folk with nappy hair.
- Look at grandma - she's got nappy hair, big lips, a wide nose, high cheek bones.
- There I was with my West Indian accent, dark skin and nappy hair - before locks and the new African-American identity, mind you.
- I think I look fine even though I am over weight, have nappy hair, and seem a bit grouchy, as you would if you were a freak having to put up with normal people.
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense ‘shaggy’): from Middle Dutch noppigh, Middle Low German noppich, from noppe (see nap). The current sense dates from the early 20th century. |