See terry nappy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Named after the terry towelling fabric from which these flat nappies were most commonly made.", "forms": [ { "form": "terry nappies", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "terry nappy (plural terry nappies)", "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": "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": [ [ 42, 55 ] ], "ref": "1940 November 14, “Blackler's Money-Saving Bargains”, in Liverpool Echo (Advertisement), Babies' Napkins, page 5:", "text": "Special Purchase of Infants; good quality Terry Nappies; in a useful size", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 106, 117 ] ], "ref": "1989, Karen Christensen, Home Ecology, British edition, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 333:", "text": "Many people are put off by the idea of using pins. There are excellent ecological alternatives to using a terry nappy with plastic pants. One is a fitted cotton or wool cover which holds the nappy in place without pins.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A cloth nappy folded from a large piece of square or rectangular absorbent fabric which is held in place by a nappy pin or other fastener, especially one made from terry (coarse cotton); a flat nappy." ], "id": "en-terry_nappy-en-noun-~jaTgQH8", "links": [ [ "cloth nappy", "cloth nappy" ], [ "absorbent", "absorb" ], [ "fabric", "fabric" ], [ "nappy pin", "nappy pin" ], [ "fastener", "fastener" ], [ "terry", "terry" ], [ "cotton", "cotton" ], [ "flat nappy", "flat nappy" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, chiefly historical) A cloth nappy folded from a large piece of square or rectangular absorbent fabric which is held in place by a nappy pin or other fastener, especially one made from terry (coarse cotton); a flat nappy." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "terry diaper" }, { "word": "terry" }, { "word": "flat nappy" }, { "word": "flat diaper" } ], "tags": [ "Commonwealth", "Ireland", "UK", "historical" ] } ], "word": "terry nappy" }
{ "etymology_text": "Named after the terry towelling fabric from which these flat nappies were most commonly made.", "forms": [ { "form": "terry nappies", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "terry nappy (plural terry nappies)", "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 historical senses", "English terms with quotations", "Irish English", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 42, 55 ] ], "ref": "1940 November 14, “Blackler's Money-Saving Bargains”, in Liverpool Echo (Advertisement), Babies' Napkins, page 5:", "text": "Special Purchase of Infants; good quality Terry Nappies; in a useful size", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 106, 117 ] ], "ref": "1989, Karen Christensen, Home Ecology, British edition, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 333:", "text": "Many people are put off by the idea of using pins. There are excellent ecological alternatives to using a terry nappy with plastic pants. One is a fitted cotton or wool cover which holds the nappy in place without pins.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A cloth nappy folded from a large piece of square or rectangular absorbent fabric which is held in place by a nappy pin or other fastener, especially one made from terry (coarse cotton); a flat nappy." ], "links": [ [ "cloth nappy", "cloth nappy" ], [ "absorbent", "absorb" ], [ "fabric", "fabric" ], [ "nappy pin", "nappy pin" ], [ "fastener", "fastener" ], [ "terry", "terry" ], [ "cotton", "cotton" ], [ "flat nappy", "flat nappy" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, chiefly historical) A cloth nappy folded from a large piece of square or rectangular absorbent fabric which is held in place by a nappy pin or other fastener, especially one made from terry (coarse cotton); a flat nappy." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "terry diaper" }, { "word": "terry" }, { "word": "flat nappy" }, { "word": "flat diaper" } ], "tags": [ "Commonwealth", "Ireland", "UK", "historical" ] } ], "word": "terry nappy" }
Download raw JSONL data for terry nappy meaning in English (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (87ad358 and ea19a0a). 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.