diaperwear means diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, diaperwear ranks #16,222 of 20,824 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From diaper + -wear (“used to form nouns denoting clothing”).
noun
- Diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively.“Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear. It then occurred to him, an avid cross-country skier, that polypropylene's non-absorbent yet breathable characteristics would be ideal for long underwear in active sports.”