diapered? common?

[mkenuk]

Let me say that I have no quibbles about the noun diaper.
Although it's North American, it's probably well-enough known to justify its common status.

But as a verb?
Have you diapered the baby?
Never come across this before.

I'm going to do what I always do in these circumstances and award myself an honorary rosette for getting all of the common words known to me!!

[rogue_mother]

Undoubtedly the usage is North American. There are fifty-five references to it in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and only one in the British National Corpus.

Too American! Cost you a rosette!! Off with its head!!!

[yelnats]

The Collins dictionary does list it as a verb...

1. US and Canadian
a piece of soft material, esp towelling or a disposable material, wrapped around a baby in order to absorb its excrement
Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): nappy
2.
a.
a woven pattern on fabric consisting of a small repeating design, esp diamonds
b.
fabric having such a pattern
c.
such a pattern, used as decoration
verb
3. (transitive)
to decorate with such a pattern

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

and certain other countries

I think that means the rest of the English speaking world!

[anona]

Not this part of the English-speaking world. As a noun, yes, I know diaper is US for our nappy, but I've never seen diapered.

[mkenuk]

Actually, like a number of 'Americanisms' the word started in Britain (from Greek via Latin and Mediaeval French) where, for whatever reason, it died out to be replaced by another word ('nappy' from 'napkin'), while the original term persisted in the ' western colonies'.

Another, similar, example is 'faucet'.

[Alan W]

The word will be treated as rare from now on.