"nappy bank" meaning in All languages combined

See nappy bank on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: nappy banks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nappy bank (plural nappy banks)
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, uncommon) Synonym of diaper bank (“a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it”). Tags: Commonwealth, Ireland, uncommon Synonyms: diaper bank [synonym, synonym-of]

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nappy banks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nappy bank (plural nappy banks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Commonwealth English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              89
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2013 March 19, Jackie Long, “Easterhouse: harsh reality behind benefits 'revolution'”, in Channel4:",
          "text": "Today, she shows me into the unused disabled toilet, a makeshift home for the “nappy bank” they are now operating. People who can’t afford to buy a pack of nappies can come here and buy a handful to get them to the end of the week.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              161,
              172
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 November 19, Emily Brookes, “Blake Lively reveals 'heroic' efforts by Zuru's Nick Mowbray: 'I felt incredibly grateful'”, in Stuff:",
          "text": "Within a few days, she said, Mowbray had arranged to have over 265,000 nappies from Kiwi brand Rascal & Friends, which Zuru distributes internationally, sent to nappy banks and hospitals in New York and Texas.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              214,
              225
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2022 December 16, Jonathan Freedland, “Harry and Meghan are still giving Britons what they really want from royalty: cruel spectacle”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Naturally, some have taken to the phone-in shows to complain about the volume of media attention lavished on this trivia, decrying such warped priorities when food banks are joined by warm banks, bedding banks and nappy banks, and when homeless people shiver on the streets.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of diaper bank (“a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-nappy_bank-en-noun-StRjIR4D",
      "links": [
        [
          "diaper bank",
          "diaper bank#English"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ],
        [
          "institution",
          "institution"
        ],
        [
          "diaper",
          "diaper"
        ],
        [
          "monetary",
          "monetary"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Commonwealth, Ireland, uncommon) Synonym of diaper bank (“a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "diaper bank"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nappy bank"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nappy banks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nappy bank (plural nappy banks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Commonwealth English",
        "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",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              89
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2013 March 19, Jackie Long, “Easterhouse: harsh reality behind benefits 'revolution'”, in Channel4:",
          "text": "Today, she shows me into the unused disabled toilet, a makeshift home for the “nappy bank” they are now operating. People who can’t afford to buy a pack of nappies can come here and buy a handful to get them to the end of the week.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              161,
              172
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 November 19, Emily Brookes, “Blake Lively reveals 'heroic' efforts by Zuru's Nick Mowbray: 'I felt incredibly grateful'”, in Stuff:",
          "text": "Within a few days, she said, Mowbray had arranged to have over 265,000 nappies from Kiwi brand Rascal & Friends, which Zuru distributes internationally, sent to nappy banks and hospitals in New York and Texas.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              214,
              225
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2022 December 16, Jonathan Freedland, “Harry and Meghan are still giving Britons what they really want from royalty: cruel spectacle”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Naturally, some have taken to the phone-in shows to complain about the volume of media attention lavished on this trivia, decrying such warped priorities when food banks are joined by warm banks, bedding banks and nappy banks, and when homeless people shiver on the streets.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of diaper bank (“a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diaper bank",
          "diaper bank#English"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ],
        [
          "institution",
          "institution"
        ],
        [
          "diaper",
          "diaper"
        ],
        [
          "monetary",
          "monetary"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Commonwealth, Ireland, uncommon) Synonym of diaper bank (“a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "a charitable institution that distributes diapers to those without monetary or convenient access to it",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "diaper bank"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nappy bank"
}

Download raw JSONL data for nappy bank meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). 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.