diaperful

English

Etymology

From diaper +‎ -ful.

Noun

diaperful (plural diaperfuls)

1. Enough to fill a diaper.
   • 1950, Gerald Kersh, The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small, page 54:

     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.

   • 1997, Annie Smith, Glen-Bob Smith, “Weighing Kids on Stone Scales”, in The Redneck Guide To Raisin’ Children, →ISBN:

     Subtract the second figure from the first and you’ve got your young’un’s weight, give or take a diaperful.

   • 2011, The Iowa Review:

     Description of liquid waste produced today: Two diaperfuls, dark yellow.

Synonyms

• nappyful