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bonnet skewers

bonnet skewers is the plural of bonnet skewer.

Meaning of bonnet skewer

Noun

bonnet skewer (plural bonnet skewers)

  1. (humorous, informal) A hatpin.
    • What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 90

Questions about bonnet skewers

What is bonnet skewers the plural of?
Bonnet skewers is the plural of bonnet skewer.

Words near bonnet skewers in the dictionary

  1. bonnet piece
  2. bonnet pieces
  3. bonnet ripper
  4. bonnet rippers
  5. bonnet skewer
  6. bonnet skewers
  7. bonnet snail
  8. bonnet snails
  9. Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome
  10. bonneted
  11. bonnethead

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