nappy

An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.AustraliaIrelandNew-Zealand

• You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.
• Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].

To put a nappy on.transitive

• The mother nappied the baby.

Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.

• 1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438, The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each

Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)USinformaloffensive

• We would talk about each other′s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so′s.
• For example, some Black people′s corporeal zones include nappy hair texture, wide noses, thick lips, and darker-than-white skin complexion, all of which come into play when an individual is interacting with a cultural “Other.”

Inclined to sleep; sleepy.rare

• After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.

A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.

• The use of a glazed earthenware nesting-dish, or “nappy, ” 9 inches in diameter across the top, is strongly advised.
• Place a slice of pineapple in a fruit nappy, place on it a No. 10 cone of vanilla ice cream and pour over it a ladle of chop suey dressing, crowning it with a freshly opened lycher nut or a cherry.

Foamy; having a large head.

Nervous, excitable.

• ‘He's a mutton-fisted beggar; but the horse is a bit nappy, and young Roger'll be the man to keep him going at his fences.’
• I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground.

A kind of strong ale; nappy ale.obsoleteuncountable

• 1827, R. Charlton, Newcastle Improvements, in T. Thompson, et al. A Collection of Songs, Comic and Satirical, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, page 151, Aw′ve seen when we′ve gyen iv a kind, freenly way / To be blithe ower a jug o′ good na
• 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey, 2009, Echo Library, page 248, Weel do I mind that in a′ our neeborly meetings—bridals, christenings, lyke-wakes an′ the like,—we entertained ane anither wi′ rich nappy ale; […] . But the tea has

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