(a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
(a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.
(a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
(n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama was still in a nappy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when his predecessor John F Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union’s efforts to site atomic weapons on the island that is just a few dozen miles from Florida.
(2) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
(3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(4) Sales of Mamia nappies have risen 1,000% in the past four years as the company deliberately targeted new parents.
(5) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
(6) Wet nappies at night could cause infants at risk to die.
(7) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
(8) "We use the money for things like nappies and milk.
(9) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
(10) An unselected, mycologically-controlled trial was conducted at the University Children's Hospital of Graz on the treatment of nappy rash by the topical application of Canesten (clotrimazole), a broad-spectrum mycotic in the form of a 1% cream.
(11) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
(12) A rangy former quarterback with a big, toothy grin, he was raised in the low-income housing projects in Brooklyn – "a tough place" – with his father, a proud but poorly educated man, floating from job to job; one of the worst was delivering and picking up used nappies.
(13) Red and white cell numbers were reduced on light microscopy of specimens obtained from nappies, but bacterial counts were unchanged.
(14) On Tuesday Asda said it would plough £300m into lowering the price of 2,500 essentials including fruit and vegetables, cereal, nappies, milk, meat, eggs and fish in the first three months of 2015.
(15) You're doing all the right things: not telling him off if he wets the bed, putting him in a night nappy etc.
(16) Yes, I admit that in those first few weeks it was a struggle to remember to pick up the nappies and cotton wool I'd paid for, let alone the receipt.
(17) Adult incontinence pads outsold baby nappies for the first time in 2012.
(18) Families spoke out about needing the extra room for medical equipment; box rooms lined with adult nappies and oxygen cylinders that rich men in power called a luxury.
(19) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
(20) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
Sappy
Definition:
(superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
(superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
(superl.) Weak in intellect.
(superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
(a.) Musty; tainted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genius of The Muppet Show was that it was ironic without being cynical, sharp without being cruel, sweet without being sappy , anarchic without being too chaotic, timely without being dated.
(2) The smell should have been sappy and muddy and of the sea.
(3) In any case they hit dangerously sappy scenes like this one out of the park: LG: Will you kiss me?
(4) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
(5) Kobe Bryant’s last hurrah as a professional basketball player featured everything that was glorious (and maddening) about No24, plus countless sappy tribute videos.
(6) He created the sappy but much-loved Felicity in 1998.