pack of wet wipes
- noun
:
paquete de toallitas húmedas
- She gave her child a pack of wet wipes to clean his hands after eating.
Examples
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The travel-sized pack of wet wipes fits easily in my handbag.
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Don't forget to grab a pack of wet wipes before we leave!
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After a picnic, we used a pack of wet wipes to tidy up.
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I bought a pack of wet wipes for the picnic.
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After a picnic, we used a pack of wet wipes to tidy up.
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She gave her child a pack of wet wipes to clean his hands after eating.
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The travel-sized pack of wet wipes fits easily in my handbag.
How Many
3
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from the constituents: 'pack' (a package) + 'of' (linking) + 'wet' (moist) + 'wipes' (disposable cleaning cloths), so a learner who knows these words can infer a container of moist wipes. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary noun phrase composition, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name pack of wet wipes comes from the literal idea of a pack as a small bundle of wet wipes, which are small, wet cloths you can 'throw away'. People carried this handy bundle to clean hands, faces, or messes while traveling or with babies, so the phrase means a ready set of moist cloths for quick 'cleaning'.