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The monkey is better dressed than most new members...
The monkey is better dressed than most new members...
He apparently wears a nappy under the coat.
DB shearling & a nappy. I think we've found the perfect SF-approved attire to wear in a nursing home...
Whats a nappy?
I interpreted it as the UK word/slang for diaper. YMMV.
Don Imus knows others...
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Yeah, nappy = diaper.
Out of curiosity, I just googled the etymologies of the two words, given that they're both quite unusual words, something I've never really thought consciously about before.
Interestingly, diaper seems to probably be the older word, though not by much (both were in use as far back as the 16th century). I've noticed this with some other differences in words used in American English vs British English. The American word can actually be the older one, or at least equally old as the English word, but language altered less in the US (I suppose due to being relatively geographically separated from polite European society at first). Another example is Autumn vs Fall. Fall is the Old English/Old Germanic word used for the season; Autumn comes from Latin via Old French. Both used be be commonplace, but Fall fell out of use in England but was retained the US.
"Diapering" apparently refers to a diagonal/hatch pattern of a type of cloth. I suppose it eventually became a name for a particular item of clothing in the same way that "flannels" much more recently became a name for a particular kind of trouser i.e. calling the item solely by its material.
I expected nappy to derive from the nap of the cloth used, but it seems that in fact it's a more direct contraction of napkin... and napkin is a combination of nape+kin. "Nape" was a word for cloth and kin was a suffix used to make nouns diminutive. So, napkin = napekin = small cloth, and nappy is a further corruption of the original word. You can also see how nap could itself derive nape.
Yeah, nappy = diaper.
Out of curiosity, I just googled the etymologies of the two words, given that they're both quite unusual words, something I've never really thought consciously about before.
Interestingly, diaper seems to probably be the older word, though not by much (both were in use as far back as the 16th century). I've noticed this with some other differences in words used in American English vs British English. The American word can actually be the older one, or at least equally old as the English word, but language altered less in the US (I suppose due to being relatively geographically separated from polite European society at first). Another example is Autumn vs Fall. Fall is the Old English/Old Germanic word used for the season; Autumn comes from Latin via Old French. Both used be be commonplace, but Fall fell out of use in England but was retained the US.
"Diapering" apparently refers to a diagonal/hatch pattern of a type of cloth. I suppose it eventually became a name for a particular item of clothing in the same way that "flannels" much more recently became a name for a particular kind of trouser i.e. calling the item solely by its material.
I expected nappy to derive from the nap of the cloth used, but it seems that in fact it's a more direct contraction of napkin... and napkin is a combination of nape+kin. "Nape" was a word for cloth and kin was a suffix used to make nouns diminutive. So, napkin = napekin = small cloth, and nappy is a further corruption of the original word. You can also see how nap could itself derive nape.