Dapper vs Diaper - What's the difference?
dapper | diaper |
Neat, trim.
* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
* Shakespeare
(North America) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an older person who is incontinent; a nappy.
The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
To put diapers on someone.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
* Peacham
As an adjective dapper
is neat, trim.As a noun diaper is
a textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.As a verb diaper is
to put diapers on someone.dapper
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
- Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
Derived terms
* Dapper DanAnagrams
* ----diaper
English
Noun
(en noun)- The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
- Let one attend him with a silver basin, / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper .
Synonyms
* (absorbent garment) nappy (qualifier); napkin (qualifier)Derived terms
* incontinence diaperSee also
* (wikipedia "diaper")Verb
- Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
- If you diaper on folds.