diaper butt
- noun
- /ˈdaɪpər bʌt/
- Informal
- It's hard not to smile when you see a baby with a big diaper butt waddle by.
Examples
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Parents laughed at the toddler's diaper butt as he ran across the room.
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The photos showed her with an adorable diaper butt in every shot.
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The baby has a cute diaper butt.
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Look at that adorable diaper butt!
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It's hard not to smile when you see a baby with a big diaper butt waddle by.
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Parents laughed at the toddler's diaper butt as he ran across the room.
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The photos showed her with an adorable diaper butt in every shot.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'diaper' (an absorbent garment) + 'butt' (buttocks): it describes the padded/rounded appearance of a bottom when wearing a diaper. This is a straightforward noun–noun descriptive compound following common compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Diaper butt comes from the simple picture of a baby's bottom looking rounded and soft because of a diaper. The word butt here means 'child's bottom', so the phrase describes that padded, rounded look.