diaperhood

English

WOTD – 1 September 2012

Etymology

From diaper +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.pɚ.hʊd/, /ˈdaɪ.ə.pɚ.hʊd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.pə.hʊd/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

diaperhood (uncountable)

1. (informal) The period of time for which one wears a diaper as a child; babyhood.
   • 1930, Isaac Goldberg, Tin Pan Alley:

     ... "Baby's Eyes" ... "Mud-Pie Days" ... "Baby Hands" ... "Creep, Baby, Creep" ... "My Mamma Lives Up in the Sky" ... "My Mother's Kiss" ... It was the diaperhood of the Alley — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children set to children's music.

   • 1992, John Voelker, Trout Magic:

     ...all this despite the fact that I was born and raised in the same Peninsula and had been trout fishing avidly almost from diaperhood.

   • 2007 April 24, Jan Hoffman, “Treating the Awkward Years”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Of those teenagers who are insured and who continue to see a primary-care doctor, a vast majority remain with the pediatricians or family doctors who have cared for them since diaperhood.

Translations

period of wearing diapers

• Danish: blealder c
• Dutch: luiertijd m, babytijd (nl) m
• Esperanto: vindotukaĝo
• Finnish: vaippaikä (fi)
• Korean: 영아기 (yeong'agi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bleiealder m

  Nynorsk: bleiealder m

• Russian: младе́нчество (ru) n (mladénčestvo)
• Swedish: blöjålder c