nappy
IPA: nˈæpi
noun
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
- A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
- (obsolete) A kind of strong ale; nappy ale.
verb
- (transitive) To put a nappy on.
adjective
- Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
- (US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
- (rare) Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
- (of a drink) Foamy; having a large head.
- (of a horse) Nervous, excitable.
- (Scotland) brittle
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Examples of "nappy" in Sentences
- Once the nappy is on her pjs go on and then I let her bounce on the bed a little bit.
- The term nappy has been used repeatedly as an insult as though our natural selves are less than.
- I don't think anybody takes the phrase nappy-headed hos to mean that they were actually prostitutes.
- Am I alone in thinking that the sight of a wrinkly, grey, washed-out, middle-aged man holding a tiny little pink thing in a nappy is faintly disgusting?
- Our opposing counsel were dead asleep in nappy nap land by the time Jeff whispered, essentially, “Did you infringe our patent?” and the deponent responded in another whisper, “Yeah, I guess so.”
- Spirits were raised when one teenage Hooray asked Mother of Hoorays for his cuddly muslin nappy and proceeded to suck his thumb, the silence was momentarily golden but after a quick fix he was back in the groove.
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