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Infant's need
Answer for the clue "Infant's need ", 6 letters:
diaper
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diaper \Di"a*per\ (d[imac]"[.a]*p[~e]r), n. [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L. jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper .] Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to put a small, repeated pattern on," from Old French diaprer , variant of diasprer , from diaspre (see diaper (n.)). Meaning "to put a diaper on" (a baby) is attested by 1951. Related: Diapered ; diapering .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES diaper rash COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN rash ▪ I saw one of the hardiest women I know burst into tears of self-loathing because her daughter had diaper rash . ▪ The baby never has colic, thrush, diaper rash , infant ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A diaper (also called a nappy outside North America) is a type of underwear that allows the wearer to defecate or urinate without the use of a toilet , by absorbing or containing waste products to prevent soiling of outer clothing or the external environment. ...
Usage examples of diaper.
Shit, motherfucking Arnold Swatchanigga would pinch a musclebound log in his diapers he run into Piss.
Where otherwise they are not distinguishable, the Netherlandish miniatures are usually such as prefer plain burnished gold backgrounds to diapered ones, or have a plain deep blue paled towards the horizon, and lastly replace the background by a natural, or what was intended to be a natural, landscape.
A squad of Rebels found what was once a lovely home that now contained about a dozen women and twice that many children, ranging in age from runny-nosed infants in filth-encrusted diapers to boys and girls nine or ten years old.
Until a few years ago, the most extensive attempt to communicate with chimpanzees went something like this: A newborn chimp was taken into a household with a newborn baby, and both would be raised together-twin cribs, twin bassinets, twin high chairs, twin potties, twin diaper pails, twin baby powder cans.
She carefully laid Josie in the bag and stuffed some diapers and a blanket in with her.
She let Desdemona worry about the diaper rashes and whooping coughs, the earaches and nosebleeds.
But once they put these Red Diaper Doper Baby lawyers from NYU on Prozac, the spittle started appearing again.
Kewpie dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Raggedy Ann, and numerous other varieties, both old and new, some more than three feet tall, some smaller than a milk carton, were dressed in diapers, snowsuits, elaborate bridal dresses, checkered rompers, cowboy outfits, tennis togs, pajamas, hula skirts, kimonos, clown suits, overalls, nighties, and sailor suits.
Nicky was wearing a diaper, bright red terrycloth shorts and nothing else.
Wednesday morning, and now they got him in diapers and twenty four-hour restraint, with Thorazine cocktails twice a day.
With each trip to town, she brought home a few more items for the baby until she had a supply of little undershirts, socks, sleepsuits, and newborn outfits along with the requisite bibs, rattles, teething rings, baby powder, diapers, and assorted baby items, all of it augmented by purchases Jessy had made.
When they were on good domestic terms they stayed in their bedroom for days of squeaking springs with the door locked except for brief sallies out for Beefeater gin and Chinese take-out in little white cardboard pails with wire handles, with the Stice children wandering ghostlike through the clapboard house in sagging diapers or woolen underwear subsisting on potato chips out of econobags bigger than most of them were, the Stice kids.
Cupid in the school Valentine's Day pageant, and the sister's school had got out early one day after an asbestos scare and she'd come unexpectedly home and found the Old Man in the basement rumpus room in tiny wings and hideously distended diaper striking a pose from a rather well-known Titian oil in the Met's High Renaissance Wing, and had struggled with denial and own-perceptions-doubting for quite some time thereafter, until a hysterical episode during rehearsals for an Ice Capades Valentine's Day number brought all the feelings surging up and broke the denial, and the Ice Capades' Employee Assistance Office counselling staff helped her start to work it all through.
And when a loved one of theirs is lying in bed constantly soiling their adult diapers, pissing all over the new designer sheets, and blabbering on like the crippled souls whose care and funding they just cut from the federal budget—well, in times like these, rich or poor, pus from facial sores all starts looking the same.
And he has and will answer your Diaper Sandoe in better verse, as he confutes him in a better life.