"diaper bucket" meaning in All languages combined

See diaper bucket on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: diaper buckets [plural]
Etymology: From diaper + bucket, due to a common design of a diaper pail (especially but not exclusively ones intended for cloth diapers) resembling the shape of a bucket with a handle for ease of transportation. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|diaper|bucket}} diaper + bucket Head templates: {{en-noun}} diaper bucket (plural diaper buckets)
  1. (Canada, US, uncommon) Synonym of diaper pail. Tags: Canada, US, uncommon Synonyms: diaper pail [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-diaper_bucket-en-noun-EI~DptV6 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for diaper bucket meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "diaper",
        "3": "bucket"
      },
      "expansion": "diaper + bucket",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From diaper + bucket, due to a common design of a diaper pail (especially but not exclusively ones intended for cloth diapers) resembling the shape of a bucket with a handle for ease of transportation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "diaper buckets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "diaper bucket (plural diaper buckets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Today's Health, volume 34, American Medical Association, page 41",
          "text": "It's not hard to plan a boiling routine. A little soap powder is added to the diaper bucket, and the contents are boiled in the bucket for ten minutes. If stained, the diapers can then be washed in the washing machine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Lorraine Marshall Burgess, Tom Bottomley, The Garden Maker's Answer Book: A Compendium of Useful Information, in Question and Answer Form, Designed to Assist New Gardeners, Association Press, page 130",
          "text": "The diapers […] are placed in a diaper bucket that can be sealed until you're ready to have them washed. Any soiled diaper container should close tightly to prevent dispersal of the ammonia odor that builds up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Elaine Zimbler, Review of Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family: A Study Guide, Appleton & Lange, page 90",
          "text": "1 diaper bucket for soiled diapers and neutralizing solution such as baking soda (one-half cup dissolved in warm water).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas Harold, The Secret of New York Revealed, Ignatius Press, page 135",
          "text": "Here there are diapers lovely piles of them, all snowy and folded and stacked. But there are, by the same token, buckets of them, all befouled and sodden and fermenting. The miasma that floats from a diaper bucket cannot be disguised no matter what fumigants, antitoxins, and essences are invented. You can tell the moment you walk into a house whether an infant lives there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of diaper pail."
      ],
      "id": "en-diaper_bucket-en-noun-EI~DptV6",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "diaper pail",
          "diaper pail#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US, uncommon) Synonym of diaper pail."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "diaper pail"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "diaper bucket"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "diaper",
        "3": "bucket"
      },
      "expansion": "diaper + bucket",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From diaper + bucket, due to a common design of a diaper pail (especially but not exclusively ones intended for cloth diapers) resembling the shape of a bucket with a handle for ease of transportation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "diaper buckets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "diaper bucket (plural diaper buckets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Today's Health, volume 34, American Medical Association, page 41",
          "text": "It's not hard to plan a boiling routine. A little soap powder is added to the diaper bucket, and the contents are boiled in the bucket for ten minutes. If stained, the diapers can then be washed in the washing machine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Lorraine Marshall Burgess, Tom Bottomley, The Garden Maker's Answer Book: A Compendium of Useful Information, in Question and Answer Form, Designed to Assist New Gardeners, Association Press, page 130",
          "text": "The diapers […] are placed in a diaper bucket that can be sealed until you're ready to have them washed. Any soiled diaper container should close tightly to prevent dispersal of the ammonia odor that builds up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Elaine Zimbler, Review of Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family: A Study Guide, Appleton & Lange, page 90",
          "text": "1 diaper bucket for soiled diapers and neutralizing solution such as baking soda (one-half cup dissolved in warm water).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas Harold, The Secret of New York Revealed, Ignatius Press, page 135",
          "text": "Here there are diapers lovely piles of them, all snowy and folded and stacked. But there are, by the same token, buckets of them, all befouled and sodden and fermenting. The miasma that floats from a diaper bucket cannot be disguised no matter what fumigants, antitoxins, and essences are invented. You can tell the moment you walk into a house whether an infant lives there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of diaper pail."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "diaper pail",
          "diaper pail#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US, uncommon) Synonym of diaper pail."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "diaper pail"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "diaper bucket"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.