nappy pail

English

Noun

nappy pail (plural nappy pails)

1. (Commonwealth) Synonym of diaper pail.
   • 1947 May 17, Dale Collins, “Love's Old Sweet Song”, in The Australian Women's Weekly, page 4:

     The only other snaps we have of Susan show a tiny baby whom we've forgotten. In between there have been scores of other Susans, each quite different. [...] There's the crawling Susan who found my fruit salts, made a snowy mountain on the kitchen floor and transformed it into a fascinating volcano by dropping water from the nappy pail on its crest.

   • 1962, Hardware Trade Journal, volume 265, Benn Brothers, page 49:

     Items seen at the Hardware Trades Fair-saucepans, a kettle, a bread or cake tin, and a nappy pail.

   • 1986, Carol Howland, The First-time Parent's Survival Guide, Thorsons Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 93:

     He might empty the nappy pail into the washing machine, fill up the bucket again with nappy soaking solution and return it to wherever the nappies are changed, each morning, saving the mother from carrying a heavy bucket too soon.

   • 2007, Zachary Leader, The Life of Kingsley Amis, Vintage, →ISBN, page 100:

     Though he had an area of sorts to work in, the flat was small, the children noisy and the nappy pail full. 'Hilly has a great deal to do, and I feel impelled to help her with some of it.'