diaper bucket

English

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.

Noun

diaper bucket (plural diaper buckets)

1. (Canada, US, uncommon) Synonym of diaper pail.
   • 1956, Today's Health, volume 34, American Medical Association, page 41:

     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.

   • 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, →ISBN, page 130:

     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.

   • 1995, Elaine Zimbler, Review of Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family: A Study Guide, Appleton & Lange, →ISBN, page 90:

     1 diaper bucket for soiled diapers and neutralizing solution such as baking soda (one-half cup dissolved in warm water).

   • 2010, Thomas Harold, The Secret of New York Revealed, Ignatius Press, →ISBN, page 135:

     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.