diaperhood
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.pɚ.hʊd/, /ˈdaɪ.ə.pɚ.hʊd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.pə.hʊd/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]diaperhood (uncountable)
- (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
[edit]period of wearing diapers
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