disposal

English

Alternative forms

• disposall (obsolete)

Etymology

From dispose +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpəʊ.zəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpəʉ.zəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊzəl

Noun

disposal (countable and uncountable, plural disposals)

1. (countable) A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things.

   Coordinate term: dispensation

   at your disposal

2. (countable) The act or an instance of disposing of or getting rid of something.

   Synonym: consignment

   1. (countable, Australian rules football) A kick or a handball of the ball during a game.
      • 2019 May 7, “In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round eight?”, in Australian Football League‎^[1], retrieved 8 May 2019:

        Lewy Taylor was quiet against the Swans with just seven disposals but hit the mark with a couple of kicks inside 50 during the crucial last quarter.

   2. (Internet slang, paraphilia, furry fandom) A sexual paraphilia, as in art, fiction, and role-playing, that involves a character consuming and digesting another and disposing their remains as bodily fluids, typically as via ejaculation or defecation.

      Hypernym: vorarephilia

      • 2019 June 12, @InfantileRoxas, Twitter‎^[2] (post):

        Aaa I see! I'm the same tbh. Diaper disposal and also TF is like a major thing for me! Although of course like most people it's only a fantasy 😂 I'm not psycho enough to want to do it irl but so many people have misconceptions.

        (Can we archive this URL?)

      • 2020 July 5, @emirainbows, Twitter‎^[3] (post):

        Diaper disposal, also known as the vore'd and blort

        (Can we archive this URL?)

      • 2023 August 1, @AutumnSoft, “Not Enough Diaper Disposal”, in Fur Affinity‎^[4]:

        I think diapers can be a lot of fun for scat play/post-vore disposal stuff, but adult baby/infantilism is a hard limit for me (no judgement, just not something I want any part of.) There isn't that much diaper art that doesn't fall into these categories, which is unfortunate. Thusly I have been possessed by horny demons who seek to make me remedy this myself. Expecting to finish up a diaper disposal sequence tonight.

      • 2024 August 21, @Random_Dude822, X‎^[5] (post):

        The alt endings include a POV blowjob, one with normal vore and the other with diaper disposal

        (Can we archive this URL?)

      • 2025 August 19, @allihearismeep.bsky.social, Bluesky‎^[6] (post):

        It was a transition from me learning about vore, to learning about disposal, to learning about diaper disposal to then just learning to love diapers.

3. (uncountable) The power to use something or someone.
4. (countable) A garbage disposal
   • 1978 April 8, “Boston So. End (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

     2 bedroom apt nicely done. Dishwasher, disposal and many closets. Heat incl $290 mo + security.

Derived terms

• at someone's disposal
• at the disposal of
• bomb disposal unit
• garbage disposal
• garbage disposal unit
• nondisposal
• predisposal
• waste disposal
• waste disposal unit

Related terms

• disposition

Translations

arrangement, categorization, classification

• Danish: ordning c, anbringelse (da) c, opstilling (da) c
• Finnish: järjestäminen (fi), luokittelu (fi)
• French: disposition (fr) f
• Hungarian: elrendezés (hu), kezelés (hu), rendelkezés (hu)
• Korean: 처분 (ko) (cheobun), 배치 (ko) (baechi), 처치 (ko) (cheochi), 정리 (ko) (jeongni), 양도 (ko) (yangdo), 매각 (ko) (maegak)
• Portuguese: disposição (pt) f

disposing of

• Bulgarian: отстраняване (bg) n (otstranjavane), избавяне от (izbavjane ot)
• Czech: likvidace (cs) f
• Danish: bortskaffelse c
• Finnish: hävittäminen (fi)
• French: élimination (fr)
• German: Beseitigung (de) f, Entsorgung (de) f (waste, especially toxic or nuclear)
• Greek: απαλλαγή (el) f (apallagí), ξεφόρτωμα (el) n (xefórtoma) (colloquial)

  Ancient Greek: ἀποβολή f (apobolḗ)

• Hebrew: היפטרות f (hipat'rút)
• Hungarian: (different ways of disposing of something: on the spot or at a remote location, by reusing or simply depositing) selejtezés (hu), leselejtezés, megszabadulás (hu), eltávolítás (hu), lerakás (hu), elszállítás (hu), hasznosítás (hu), ártalmatlanítás (hu)
• Korean: 제거 (ko) (jegeo), 처리 (ko) (cheori)
• Māori: whakareinga
• Portuguese: descarte (pt) m, eliminação (pt) f
• Spanish: desecho (es) m
• Swedish: avyttring (sv) c, utrangering c

power to use something

• Bulgarian: разположение (bg) n (razpoloženie), разпореждане (bg) n (razporeždane)
• Czech: dispozice (cs) f
• Danish: rådighed c
• Finnish: käyttö (fi)
• French: disposition (fr) f
• German: Verfügung (de) f
• Greek: διάθεση (el) f (diáthesi)
• Hungarian: rendelkezés (hu) (chiefly in fixed phrases with áll and bocsát)
• Italian: disposizione (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: disposisjon m

  Nynorsk: disposisjon m

• Portuguese: controle (pt) m
• Russian: распоряже́ние (ru) n (rasporjažénije)
• Spanish: disposición (es) f
• Swedish: förfogande (sv) n

Further reading

• “disposal”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “disposal”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “disposal”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “disposal”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “disposal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “disposal, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.