"nappy cover" meaning in All languages combined

See nappy cover on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: nappy covers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nappy cover (plural nappy covers)
  1. (UK, Commonwealth) Synonym of plastic pants. Tags: Commonwealth, UK Synonyms: plastic pants [synonym, synonym-of], diaper cover [Canada, US], diaper wrap [Canada, US], nappy wrap [Commonwealth, UK], pilchers [Australia, New-Zealand], waterproof pants

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nappy covers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nappy cover (plural nappy covers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "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": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, New England Shepherd, volume 11, A. A. Lund Associates, page 4:",
          "text": "Baby undergarment that has received a South African patent soon to be exploited in the U.S. and elsewhere, said the staff member of a Pretoria crèche. \"No other nappy cover keeps a wet baby warm and comfortable and free from diaper rashes\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Michael L. Frankel, Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard, Center for Marine Conservation, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "One of the hassles with a newborn is their constant need for nappies in huge quantities. We used toweling nappies on Jane with a plastic nappy cover. These were available in the U.K. as were the disposable type. However, our funds were limited and we didn't think it would be such a hardship, at the time, to wash a few nappies. Little did we know.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 9, Caroline Leaper, “How Rihanna made it sexy (not frumpy) to dress like a mum”, in The Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "Except that naturally, in this pop icon reimagining, the mother wears a handful of vintage rings and mandala tattoos with her designer nursing bra, while the baby matches in a logoed nappy cover.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of plastic pants."
      ],
      "id": "en-nappy_cover-en-noun--aM5d2C3",
      "links": [
        [
          "plastic pants",
          "plastic pants#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Commonwealth) Synonym of plastic pants."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "plastic pants"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Canada",
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "diaper cover"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Canada",
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "diaper wrap"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Commonwealth",
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "nappy wrap"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Australia",
            "New-Zealand"
          ],
          "word": "pilchers"
        },
        {
          "word": "waterproof pants"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nappy cover"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nappy covers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nappy cover (plural nappy covers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "Commonwealth English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, New England Shepherd, volume 11, A. A. Lund Associates, page 4:",
          "text": "Baby undergarment that has received a South African patent soon to be exploited in the U.S. and elsewhere, said the staff member of a Pretoria crèche. \"No other nappy cover keeps a wet baby warm and comfortable and free from diaper rashes\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Michael L. Frankel, Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard, Center for Marine Conservation, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "One of the hassles with a newborn is their constant need for nappies in huge quantities. We used toweling nappies on Jane with a plastic nappy cover. These were available in the U.K. as were the disposable type. However, our funds were limited and we didn't think it would be such a hardship, at the time, to wash a few nappies. Little did we know.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 9, Caroline Leaper, “How Rihanna made it sexy (not frumpy) to dress like a mum”, in The Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "Except that naturally, in this pop icon reimagining, the mother wears a handful of vintage rings and mandala tattoos with her designer nursing bra, while the baby matches in a logoed nappy cover.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of plastic pants."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plastic pants",
          "plastic pants#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Commonwealth) Synonym of plastic pants."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "plastic pants"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "diaper cover"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "diaper wrap"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "nappy wrap"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ],
      "word": "pilchers"
    },
    {
      "word": "waterproof pants"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nappy cover"
}

Download raw JSONL data for nappy cover meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.